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Busmen Press for London Transport Inquiry
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ONDON busmen are to continue to 1-d press for a public inquiry into London Transport services, in spite of the refusal of the Minister of Transport to set one up.
This is made clear in a statement signed by Mr. J. A. Stevens, chairman, and the 12 members of the Central Road Services Committee of the Transport and General Workers' Union, published in the union's journal.
Their statement was provoked by an article in the London Transport magazine by Mr. A. B. B. Valentine, chairman of the L.T.E. In this he claimed that the staff shortage was the sole reason, apart from traffic congestion, why London Transport's services had not been giving the public satisfaction. With the improved recruitment of staff since the last pay rises the need for an inquiry had therefore disappeared.
The busmen do not agree with this analysis. " The present chaos in the road passenger section in London, and the overwhelming public dissatisfaction with bus services, arises from badly organized and completely inadequate bus services. with staff shortages and traffic congestion contributing to the chaos," they say.
" If London Transport had met the competition from private forms of transport with improved services, instead of deteriorating the standard of service offered to the public in the way of continual bus cuts and increases in the fares charged, problems of staff turnover and traffic congestion would not be so acute."