ABSTRACT
This chapter traces the development of passenger transport areas in England as a response to public transport issues facing urban areas. In December 1967 the government published a further White Paper entitled ‘Public Transport and Traffic’ in which the proposal for conurbation transport authorities was replaced by the concept of passenger transport areas. The delineation of passenger transport areas was to adhere to the concept of establishing areas which had coherence in transport terms. The Labour Government accepted the majority report of the Royal Commission with few amendments. The end result for the initial passenger transport areas was that they by no means covered the continuous urban area of each conurbation whilst those in Yorkshire had significant areas which were rural in character. The passenger transport area concept was retained and the passenger transport authorities reverted to joint bodies similar to those which applied to the initial areas prior to 1974.
