Area Scheme to be Drafted
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AFURTHER stage in the proposed co-ordination of road passenger transport in the north-east will be reached in the near future by the setting up of a sub-committee to draft an arei scheme. The sub-committee will operate from offices in Newcastle-uponTyne and will contact interested parties with the object of devising a scheme which will best serve the needs of the public.
In the meantime, after last month's meeting at Newcastle upon Tyne between the Executive and local authorities, at which preliminary investigations were made, Sunderland Town Council has been asked by the Executive to submit plans and suggestions for the formulation of an area scheme.
Sunderland is, to some extent, in the dark—as are probably most authorities in the area—on a number of aspects of the proposed scheme. The things we are most concerned about at the moment," Ald. Joseph Hoy, chairman of the general purposes committee, told a representative of "The Commercial Motor." is the local consultative committees which were mentioned at the Newcastle meeting. We don't know whether they are to have executive powers over the transport in their own particular areas, or whether they will be subject to higher authority.. Obviously, we shall haye to know this before we can go much further."
Reporting to the town council on the meeting at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the town clerk of Soath Shields stated that, although no resolutions were passed, the majority view appeared to be that where municipal transport undertakings were in use, the travelling public was already as well served as it would be under a regional scheme.
It was felt, however, that if the British Transport Commission insisted on a regional scheme, no objection should be offered, provided that a considerable amount of local autonomy was given to the districts within the region.