"Transport Out of Date"
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THE plain truth is that too mu' of our transport system is out date,and with every passing year becoming more so. It is a fallacy 're-equip industry to the last degree efficiency and then expect the transpc industry to play its equally importa part with out-dated buildings," toc and methods."
Mr. John Elliot, president of t Institute of Transport and chairman the London Transport Executive, ma this observation at the annual dinner the Midland Section of the Institute Birmitighain last week.
• The time had come, he added, transport men to warn the nation it unless transport got a :fairer share available capital investment:the con guences to trade, -commerce and I individual would he serious.
He pleaded for a reduction in t fuel tax at the earliest possible mornt and for a realistic start on trunk-re rehabilitaticin seheines. He empl sized that suchwork should be planr in relation to improvements in the r; way system. If it were not, capi would be spent wastefully, which v just as bad as not spending it fre enough.