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may surprise you to learn t conservationists are ong your readers. The son is that CM contains up date information on risport trends which cannot obtained elsewhere. Jnfortunately, from the iservationist viewpoint we re to put up with a lot of poganda against our views often a complete ;understanding of our tives.
day I be permitted space to to the Views of my Society so t a better understanding and iosphere can develop ween the Road and Rail 'bias?
irst, from a safety aspect, d transport is eight times re dangerous than rail. lie a guided or tracked tern can he automated to ;id human error, road esport will always depend on nan iritain is, in our view, e-populated and has to iort half the food we eat. believe that there is no land this country that can be released for new roads which could be more usefully used for farming or 'housing.
Road vehicles should be quieter than rail; rubber wheels on asphalt being greatly preferable to metal wheels on metal tracks. In practice electric trains are much quieter than lorries. if battery driven vehicles are introduced for all form's of road transport our objections on noise and Pollution would be withdrawn.
Obviously there ig not going to he a revolution in transport overnight so conservationists will be found attacking present transport methods whenever we get the chance.
Our main aim will be to separate the different forms of road transport from each other because this is where accidents and delay OCCUR". It is ludicrous that pedestrians, cyclists, buses, cars and lorries all use the same roads. Pedestrians need precincts, cyclists need cycle tracks, stop-start buses need special lanes, On the freight side we shall campaign for more automation for British Rat with a corresponding reduction in their staff. We would hope that they will Ensparel their Freightliner and Super Van Trains so that they capture the intercity freight which Often goes by road.
A. K, PEARCE Chairman, Stourbridge Branch, Conservation Society,