Durham County Council – TRANSPORT INFORMATION SURVEY 1988

Description

This comprehensive 13-page document, primarily authored by Durham County Council’s Planning Department (James Wilson) with a detailed response from J. Cartledge of the London Regional Passengers’ Committee, offers a highly authoritative and trustworthy snapshot of regional transport. Dating from March-April 1988, it provides invaluable insights into the immediate post-bus deregulation era in the UK, capturing contemporary perspectives and data. The document’s format transitions from formal typewritten correspondence to extensive, meticulously handwritten statistical tables. These tables present detailed frequency distributions of bus travel, demographic breakdowns of users, first information sources, and quality assessments from the 1985 and 1987 Transport Information Surveys in County Durham. This rich dataset, coupled with critical observations on public information provision and the impact of deregulation, makes it an essential resource for researchers, urban planners, transport historians, and anyone interested in late 20th-century British public transport policy and its social implications.