ROAD AND RAIL

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 110, 3 February 1931, Page 11

ROAD AND RAIL

Lack of Co-ordination

A.S.R.S. RESOLUTIONS

Regret that the Government had not brought down legislation to co-ordinate road and railway transport services was expressed at yesterday’s conference of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants. . , x . The following resolutions were carriC‘That in face of the proved wastefulness and loss to the community of the present unccntrolled competition between road and railway transport services, this conference expresses its regret at the failure of the Government to comply with the request of our organisation, supported more recently by the road transport interests, that legislation for the proper regulation of these services and coordination between road and rail facilities has not yet been passed by Parliament, for we are of the opinion that the national losses due to the lack of regulation are accentuating the present economic difficulties, and constitute the most serious factor in preventing the-com-munity’s railway system from showing the true financial results from the national service it is rendering. “That the Government be urged to proceed further with its policy of writing down railway capital in order to place the department on a sounder financial footing, and remove the handicap of “dead” capital which would have been written off many, years ago if a Proper system of depreciation had beeu followed in the past.”