"Parking Matters" Protests F OLLOW1NG a Press conference hot week sponsored by the Roads Cam
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paign Council, two members of the Council have subsequently circularized a protest at the contents of the Press release, issued in the name of the Council, relating to a pamphlet published by the Council entitled "Parking Matters."
The two protesting bodies, The Municipal Passenger Transport Association and The Public Transport Association, point out that they are far from opposing all proposals to increase off-street parkine facilities in city centres, but they do reject the basic assumption made by the Council that therein lies the solution to all the problems of 'urban congestion.
The Associations further stress that they believe that the prime cause of urban congestion is too many vehicles carrying too few people, and they argue that one double-deck bus is the equivalent in terms of passenger carrying of 50 private cars. Furthermore," motorcars spend the great majority of their lives stationary," and present no parking problem.
A bone of contention with the two protesting Associations is, they state, that they were not given an opportunity of considering the pamphlet to which they object before it was published.