• Reading. Investigates Bus Operation
Page 50
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
k...SIX-MAN' team been appointed
by Reading Transport CoMmittee to examine the affairs and administration of the town's transport undertaking. They will submit a report and recommendations to the full committee.
Explaining the plan to the town council, Cilr. David Stoddart, transport committee chairman, said they last appointed a sub-committee in 1951, and since then undertakings all over the country had been going through difficult times. There had been falling traffic and falling revenue and they wanted to see if their present administration was the right sort to deal with the changed circumstances.
Supporting the action, Cllr. J. S. Woodrow said something would have to be done to remedy the present "unhappy situation." Monthly returns showed that their losses were continuing at a fairly rapid rate,' and he hoped the subcommittee would examine the possibility of reverting to oil-engined vehicles. Many other undertakings were Ending them an advantage over trolleybuses.
Cllr. B. Belcher pointed out that air pollution was rising in cities using oilengined vehicles. Research had proved that there was more harm from these fumes than from cigarette smoking.
Stoddart said it was decided last year as a matter of policy to keep trolkybuses at least until 1969-70.