Filmed Tyne Tees Television Northern Life news report on a demonstration by staff at Newcastle's Worswick Street bus station over the increase in bus fares. Reporter Tony Cook interviews a union representative at the protest. This item was originally broadcast on 25 April 1977. Staff from Newcastle's Worswick Street bus station hand out leaflets to passers-by outside Worswick Street bus station. Tony Cook interviews a union representative about the county council decision on a...

Filmed Tyne Tees Television Northern Life news report on a demonstration by staff at Newcastle's Worswick Street bus station over the increase in bus fares. Reporter Tony Cook interviews a union representative at the protest. This item was originally broadcast on 25 April 1977. Staff from Newcastle's Worswick Street bus station hand out leaflets to passers-by outside Worswick Street bus station. Tony Cook interviews a union representative about the county council decision on a reduction in the bus service. Cook states that they are protesting but fares in Newcastle are among the cheapest in Britain. The union rep acknowledges that this is a fact, but that, without subsidies, Newcastle would see the introduction of one pound bus fares in the future. Cook responds that Tyne & Wear spend 3 million pounds on subsidies and that some people might say that bus transport should pay its own way. The rep thinks that this is an impossibility in running a bus service. The reporter replies that this is unfair on people who don't use the buses but are paying rates. The union rep responds that we need to ask the question of whether we want a public transport system, and if we do, as not everyone has a motor car, subsidies are the better way. [ Worswick Street bus station finally closed in April 1996.]