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APROGRESS report on the work of the
London TranAport Co-ordinating Council was given in the Commons last week by Mr. Stephen Swingler, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
He noted that the council had set in progress an ambitious programme of works by five working groups, with the emphasis on improving public transport and the need to get the right balance between public and private transport to make an impact on traffic problems.
The operations group, under the chairmanship of Sir Alex Samuels, was, at regularly fortnightly meetings, discovering and putting into effect ways of improving the bus services, bringing together traffic management schemes and improvements of interchange between different forms of transport. The results achieved so far were not spectacular, and nobody would expect this, went on Mr. Swingler.
Other aspects of the groups' work mentioned by Mr. Swingler included the problems of freight movement in London and the loading and unloading of vehicles.
In all this the emphasis was upon joint effort by co-ordinating the work of those who made the traffic regulations, who planned the improvement of highways and who carried on the day-to-day job of operating the public transport system, said Mr. Swingler.
"The aim is to achieve immediate improvement in travelling conditions and to define the changes in the law which may be necessary in the longer term if we are to have a properly integrated transport system in London."
Heavy traffic warnings: A number of warnings about heavy traffic using Hyde Park have been given in recent months—but it had not been necessary to institute any prosecutions, said Mr. Roy Jenkins, the Home Secretary, in the Commons.