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its seating capacity, while the average distance travelled by the London passenger was about 21 miles and the majority travelled for less than a mile.
Conductors were an extremely expensive luxury, he maintained; one-man and standing-passenger vehicles were needed, and the short-iourney passenger must be provided for and segregated from the through-journey traveller.
Double-deck maids-of-all-work of everincreasing size, lumbering along in convoy and clogging the streets could no longer be afforded, said Mr. Dune.
"Surely we are entitled to see a dramatic effort to provide town and city populations with new types of road passenger transport . . short-journey mini-buses painted in different colours easily recognized from longer journey vehicles, with appropriate price differentials, operating in specially reserved lanes and even special streets for buses only. .. . Equally, we must ban buses front certain streets."
BRF REACTS, TOO GOVERNMENT threats of restrictions on vehicle entry into urban areas has brought critical comment also from the British Road Federation in a top-level policy statement.
This statement demands a reasonable alternative (including drastically improved public transport), and new traffic engineering measures, before such restrictions on access can be accepted.
It also calls for a new body empowered to rehire road taxes to expenditure, placing roads on the same basis as other public utilities.
HO Short: A warning that Derby Corporation bus department is short of 100 drivers and conductors was given last week.