LONDON TRAFFIC

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 5

LONDON TRAFFIC

UNIFICATION PROJECT WIDE INTEREST SHOWN (British Official Wireless.) il.ee. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 4. Great interest has been aroused by the announcement made in the House ot Commons by t lie Transport Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, that the Government is to draft a scheme for the unification of all London traffic services under public ownership. Details of the proposals are keenly awaited, but they are unlikely to tie available for some tune, as the subject is to bo explored at once by .the Transport Ministry with all the interests concerned in London traffic services, including municipalities. Mr. Morrison in his statement said that the Government agreed with the conclusions reached by the traffic advisory committee that uneconomic and unnecessary competition should be eliminated, and that a far-reaching measure of unification under public control is essential to progress. The Government believes that the “ends in view could be fully achieved, and public interest fully safeguarded, only iS the existing financial interests were consolidated by the substitution of a single and simple form of public ownership for the complicated work of separate interests, private and municipal, which'now add so greatly to the. difficulties of the situation.” ; v. . ! In some political quarters the view is taken that the Government contemplates ..'.creating a,public body on the lines of/the Port iof -Londpit Authority to' co-ordinate and Control various passenger services. In others, it is assumed that the creation of a public body that would buy out the existing passenger tramway, omnibus, and tube railway services is intended. Comment in the,press and by traffic experts is reserved pending further details.