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Uplift Forecast for Big-City Transport

13th November 1964
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EVEN at great expense only a limited increase in accessibility could be created in large cities, said Mr. Alan Proudlove, senior lecturer in civil engineering at Liverpool University, last week. He was speaking to the Merseyside section of the Institute of Transport on road transport in relation to town planning. Liverpool's proposals, which would cost £40-£50 million, would no more than double present-day accessibility.

In larger towns, after allowing for the coming increase in personal mobility, the balance of journeys to the centre must continue to be made by public transport, said Mr. Proudlove. Again, taking Liverpool as an example, if 90 per cent of the work journeys to the centre in 1964 were made by public carrier the ultimate doubling of access would still leave 84 per cent using it in 1984, because of the increased working population at the centre. Assuming 140,000 work journeys daily to the city centre at present, some 126,000 would use public transport. Doubling of access by 1984 would leave 84 per cent of the new work force of 174,000 to use public services, an increase of 20,000 journeys over the present ligure.

Continuous lowering of housing densities between 1920 and 1960 had resulted in an increasingly uneconomic situation for public transport owing to the attenuation of routes in residential areas, Mr. Proudlove went on. The general lowering of densities would continue to worsen the position.

Because it would handle the great bulk of passengers in the big cities, public transport would have to take priority in the matter of access to the central area. With that proviso, said Mr. Proudlove, it would be able best to serve the community.

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