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• A growing awareness of the conflict.between transport and amenity meant that operators must beware that the balance did not swing too far in favour of amenity and against transport. the director of the FTA, Mr. Hugh Featherstone, said on Monday. Addressing the Metropolitan section of the Institute of Transport, on the effects of recent transport legislation, he said that while amenity considerations might properly temper transport development, it would be quite another thing for amenity to put a stranglehold on transport.
The zeal for safety legislation which now threatened to swamp operators had been sparked off. said Mr. Featherstone, by the Ministry of Transport's past failure to exercise its powers of legislation and enforcement, which had led to flagrant abuse by an irresponsible minority.
On the effects of the new licensing system, Mr. Featherstone said he knew some quite large C-licensees who planned to enter the haulage field, but overall he thought the inroads by own-account operators would be small. He also thought that today's highly regulated situation was so different from the pre-1930 rat-race (or rate-race) that fears of uneconomic rate-cutting were unfounded. .