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THIS PTA POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH OVER
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ALL OTHER OPERATORS . . •
WE DISPUTE-PVCIA
IN a hard-hitting memorandum to the Minister of Transport, the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association this week clearly stated its case against the proposed structure and powers of the Passenger Transport Authorities.
And in its preface to the memorandum, the PVOA said that it backed fully—"supported and endorsed"—the July-end (CM, August 4) memorandum submitted to the Minister by the Public Transport Association.
The PVOA declared itself wholly opposed to "large boards whose paramount powers will be to operate outsize fleets". Guidance of advisory PTA boards? Yes. Definitely beneficial. But: "The Association can see no such benefit resulting from the formation of operating boards."
Praise for the Traffic Commissioners. Then: "(We) believe it would be a tragedy if by a stroke of a pen, whether activated by political considerations or by ignorance, the benefits of this evolutionary process were to be destroyed."
And this telling blow:— "The 'Consent' procedure . . . would effectively ensure that the Regional State Monopolies would be 'judges in their own cause' and would have power of life and death over all other operators."