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SOME of my Fleet Street motoring colleagues have been over in Japan, presumably to study how the Japanese can build cars and ship them to the UK to be sold as cheaply as our own homespun product. But our car correspondents could not help commenting on the whole Japanese transport scene.
Stuck in Tokyo's traffic jams they were able to analyse and solve the problems of Japan and Britain. The Japanese problems began, I understand, as recently as 1950— until then, we learn, transport had been by oxcart. I don't believe it!
It seems that, in the 10 years after that the Nippon railway developed and then, from 1961, the road operators nipped in and stole the traffic — something to do with flexibility and efficiency, no doubt. Anyway, the Japanese railways now have a massive deficit — they're wonderful at copying you know!
One correspondent waxes eloquently about the use of transfer terminals out there and says we could benefit from this idea.
CM has been saying this for years, but we only went to France for the model.
Terminals or not, Tokyo and Osaka have jams that make ours look like orderly queues. They even have spillage problems.
Last week 66,300 eggs fell on the road: it was three hours before traffic could move when the fire service washed the huge yoke pool away.