Durham County Council – TRANSPORT INFORMATION SURVEY 1988

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The correspondence summarizes the 1987 County Durham Transport Information Survey and responses. The County Planning Officer provides summary findings and timetable booklets, apologising for delay and noting the survey validated its methods. Key results show a roughly 10% decline in bus usage between 1985 and 1987, uneven across adult groups, but it is unclear how much of the fall is due to deregulation versus an ongoing trend. J. Cartledge of the London Regional Passengers’ Committee endorses the value of good information provision, suggests comparative work with areas offering poorer information, and comments on the resumed timetable booklets. He welcomes retained features (hospital details, school holiday dates, combined bus/rail schedules, amendments service), regrets loss of “How to reach places of interest,” asks for clearer phone-contact/answering-hour guidance, praises route-strip layout, and recommends cross-references for related routes and clearer marking of tendered journeys. Enclosed tables detail travel frequency by age, sex and licence status and users’ information sources and adequacy assessments.