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'Keep up service standards'

16th September 1966
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delegates on Wednesday discussed Mr Quarmby's paper (see pages 118-9). Mr. L. I-1 Smith, Leicester, said that what they wen required to do depended on whether they wee thinking in terms of the MPTA, the PTA o the THC. It was essential to keep the bes possible service, even if it did not quite mee operating costs, so that undertakings when the had to bear a heavier load would not be in a run down state as had happened in America.

Mr. C. T. Humpidge, Sheffield, asked whethe Mr. Quarmby was quite sure that captive rider would have the chance to acquire and run car cheaply in the future; things could be ven different with a credit squeeze. The initial cost, of putting transport right were the importan things and after that the social costs would talo care of themselves.

On captive riders buying cars, Mr. Quarmbl said that one had to work on predictions and assum a recession to be temporary.

Alderman J. P. Smalley, Newcastle-upon Tyne, commented that their 250,000-populatiot city would presently become a conurbation o lm., and industrial construction in place! formerly out of the question would vitally affec movement of people.

In AD 2010, the country would be gettim down to 30, 20, or even 10-hour weeks and mon leisure transport would be needed.

Mr. Quarmby was not sure he agreed ever about the possibility of the 30-hour week, at actual working hours had not declined like "official" working hours.

Mr. R. F. Bennett, Manchester, saw theii problem as persuading the car owner of th( future onto the bus. In Manchester, the prediction was that by 1985 about 92 per cen. of car owning commuters would have to he diverted to public transport.

Services would therefore need to be mad( more attractive and car-using facilities reduced


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