MINISTER MAY " USE " B.T.C. THE railways have denounced the
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Transport Bill as providing "no practical or constructive plans for the improvement and co-ordination of transport," and proposing "an unwieldy and bureaucratic control with no proper safeguards for transport users."
Pointing out that the road-rail co-ordination scheme submitted to the Government avoids the dangers and abuses of monopoly; and safeguards the Nation's transport from the risks of political pressure, the railways state that under the Bill the British Transport Commission may be influenced when political expediency demands it. The Commission, it is stated, is subject to direction by the Minister of Transport on nearly every matter, and has no independence.
Because there has been no detailed examination of the needs of users and the Bill makes no practical contribution to the improvement of transport, the railways demand that a public inquiry should be held immediately.