Views on Transport to be Broadcast
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OMMENCING on April 28, a series of talks on the subject of transport will be broadcast, and we are glad to note that, contrary to what we usually expect from the British Broadcasting Corporation, the road side is to be given quite a good proportion of the total.
The first talk on the above date will be a general review of the position of transport, which will deal with the subjects and problems to be covered, and from a note that we have received from the Corporation these are to be less concerned with the transport of passengers than with the bigger side, the carriage of goods.
Subjects to be Covered.
The subjects will cover only internal transport, but will, of course, include the conveyance of imports and exports, dock owners being amongst the biggest users. Some of the points dealt with will be the question of State or private ownership or management, rate-cutting, whether the principle of transport boards should be applied elsewhere than in London and Northern Ireland, whether trunk roads on the lines of the German Autobahnen should be constructed, and other matters of vital interest to the scheme of transport.
The interlocutor in all these broadcasts will be a10 Mr. B. Marsden-Smedley, who is a member of the London Traffic Advisory Committee, and formerly represented local authorities in England and Wales on the Transport Advisory Council.
A Nine-weeks' Programme.
During the nine weeks subsequent to the commencing date, the following subjects will be dealt with in the order given : the trader's view, including short statements by a coalowner, a millowner. a market gardener and a traffic manager of a large distributing store ; railways will be discussed by Sir Ralph Wedgwood ; road haulage by Mr. J. S. Nichol!, of McNamara and Co. (1921), Ltd. ; then will Come the subjects of inland waterways, coastwise shipping and seaports, followed by a discussion on transport and the State by an official of the Transport and General Workers Union, Alderman A. H. Gledhill, of Halifax, Mr. A. G. Marsden (transport supervisor of the Cadbury organization) and others. The last two will treat with airways, and the future of the roads, the latter by Lieut.-Col. Mervyn O'Gorman, C.B., and Mr. Somers, City Surveyor, Glasgow.
All these should make an extremely interesting subject and one which, if not unduly censored, is likely to prove of value in this time of transport controversy.