Total revenue passenger miles for the bus industry reached a peak of 27.4 million in 1980.
The deal will renew the association between two well-known names in the bus industry.
We have seen the same thing happen when the bus industry was deregulated and this is based on hard facts.
The private bus industry simply doesn't want to put lifts on buses.
But the state's bus industry is largely self-regulating, the officials said.
In the meantime, the bill provides for a three-year study of the cost impact on the bus industry.
"What," asked a bus industry official, "is the problem that you're trying to solve?"
Many aspects of the bus industry are heavily controlled by government.
The 1920s saw fierce competition in the British bus industry.
The peak period for the private bus industry was said to have been up to the mid-1950s.