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Transport is a major topic for Conservative Conference
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from our Parliamentary correspondent
• Transport has been selected in a debate at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool next month.
The Conference is being held from October 10 to 13 and the transport debate will be taking place on Friday October 12.
The motion chosen — proposed by the North Nottingham Conservative Association — is wide-ranging but calls specifically for the provision of an adequate public transport system, financed in part from public funds.
But, as with the other political parties. the whole spectrum of transport policy will be thrashed out. Many of the 57 resolutions submitted draw attention to the threat of
an "energy crisis" in the early 1980s and call upon the Government to review transport needs, re-appraise the roadbuilding programme and urgently consider means of transferring heavy freight from the roads to the railways and waterways.
Guildford Association calls for a restructuring of thc financial basis of British Rail so that its pricing system can attract a considerable proportion of passenger and freight traffic from the roads.
Hammersmith Mirth proposes direct incentives to industry to use the railways.
From all parts of the country concern is expressed about the rapid growth of container traffic on the roads.
The Government is urged by Barry conservatives to introduce further controls over the use of heavy lorries and to restrict them to motorways and major roads banning them from towns and cities.
Several associations applaud the Government's stand against EEC proposals to increase axle weight limits and demand that there should be no relaxation in the Government's attitude to these proposals.
A number of resolutions express concern about reports that the railway network is to be further reduced.
The Government's White Paper on the future of the railways network is unlikely to be ready before the conference, but Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, is expected to sketch out his thinking on the subject when he replies to the debate.