'Don't squeeze the van to suit the bus'
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"THE Minister of Transport rightly lays great stress on the improvement of public transport as an essential ingredient of traffic policy. No one would dispute this, but it is a far cry from this statement of policy to virtually giving to buses a monopoly of the roads, and ignoring altogether the claims of other classes of road user."
This point is made in an article in the November issue of Industrial Road Transport, the official journal of the TRTA.
Referring to the call for urban clearways the article states that the TRTA holds no brief for the indiscriminate parking of vehicles—vans or ears—which occurs outside shops in uncontrolled areas, and is quite ready to accept widespread expansion of controlled parking. But if wider control of waiting and delivery at the kerbside means added restrictions on deliveries, this would De quite unacceptable except as part of a realistic Dverall traffic policy which, amongst other things, paid proper regard to priorities.
It states that the TRTA seems to be alone in iisputing the value of the urban clearway concept and is genuinely puzzled at the addiction of the usmen to it.