TRANSPORT CONTROL

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 7

TRANSPORT CONTROL

“ONE BIG UNION” PROPOSED. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received September 7, 9 a.m.) LONDON, September 6. Professor H. M. Hallswortb, addressing the British Association for the Advancement of Science, emphasising that railway transport was faced with increasing loss, owing to competition from road and air, declared that the solution does not lie in forfeiting the development of road transport in the interests of the railways, as practiced in some countries where the railways are State-owned, but in the creation of vast new transport companies, absorbing both rail and road services as contemplated in Ulster. The'interests of the community should be safeguarded by limiting the profits. The company should be subject to a public tribunal, empowered to compel it to change services and methods when the interests of the community dictate. Railways are still the backbone of the transport services. SAFETY ON ROADS. RVGBY, September 5. The Road Council, over which Mr. Hore Belisha presides, will meet weekly to consider questions of safety on roads. The Council will be representative of all sections of road users. The Minister is calling meetings of thirty-three local authorities in the London County area to discuss the nrovision in all districts concerned, of pedestrian crossings. Included among the duties of the Council will be to review the highway code and its redrafting in the light of any modifications found necessary.