Barbara tackles transport technology in USA
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MRS. Barbara Castle, Minister of Transport, flew from London Airport on Monday, accompanied by her chief scientific adviser, Mr. E. C. Williams, to the United States for an 11-day visit to San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Boston and Washington.
In Washington, she will meet Mr. Alan Boyd, Under-Secretary of Commerce for Transportation, Mr. Robert C. Weaver, secretary of the . housing and urban devement department, and Mr. Rex Whitton, US Federal Highway Administrator.
The Minister will be paying particular attention during her visit to new developments in transport technology. She will discuss San Francisco's plans for a new public transport system (the Bay area rapid transit project) and visit test installations there. In Washington, she will study the high speed ground transportation research project of the Department of Commerce.
In New York, she will have discussions with the Port Authority, and will spend a full day reviewing and discussing the container transport operations of Sealand Inc., while in San Francisco she will study the operational and research aspects of the Matson Line's container business.
She. will study highways and traffic in New York (where she will meet Commissioner Henry Barnes), Los Angeles and Boston (where she will also look at public transport). Near San Francisco, she will spend a day with the Californian State Department of Highways at their Sacramento headquarters, and she will have discussions with the top executives of the Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco about their organization and freight handling methods.