Operators Want Voice on Traffic Committee
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nPERATORS intend to press as a '6-, matter of urgency for a voice on the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee. The Government are to be asked to amend the Road Traffic Bill to include provision for new representation on the committee.
A large proportion of the committee's present membership consists of officials appointed by Government Departments and other public authorities. Apart from the British Transport Commission, London Transport and London taxicab operators, the only other vehicle users' representatives are two—one for cars, the other for horsed vehicles.
Mr. F. D. Fitz-Gerald, national secretary of the Traders' Road Transport Association, writing in the Association's bulletin, says that when the Minister of Transport consulted interested motor organizations a few ,months ago, there was a united recommendation that there should be a reduction in official representatives. In place, it was urged that there should be one representative on behalf of C-licensees, another for the independent coach and bus operators and a third for hauliers.
"There is very considerable anxiety over the omission of any such provision in the Bill, especially in view of the overdue official concern at the magnitude of the London traffic problem and the various developments arising therefrom," states Mr. FitzGerald.