Progress in Regional Transport Studies
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vURTHER details of the regional transport studies set under way by the Minister of Transport were given in the Commons last week.
Mrs. Castle said that at her request the Railways Board was arranging to keep Regional Economic Planning Councils informed from time to time of the national plan for railway freight services and of the provisions made in that plan for servicing each region.
During a debate on commuters in the southeast, Mr. John Morris, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said that special arrangements had been made to bring together the public transport boards and all the Government departments with an interest in planning and transport in the south-east.
This had been done in the context of the regional planning machinery for the south-east.