Move Over, Gentlemen
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T MUST say that the women who are moving into high places in the transport world seem quite capable of standing on their own feet, and not fearful of treading on other people's! We are already accustomed to Barbara Castle, a seasoned campaigner, taking on all corners at a Press conference, and last week Mrs. Ian Phillips, chairman of the GLC highways and traffic cotnmittee, was completely unabashed by the prospect of "talking shop" to a large and virtually all-male audience at the TRTA's London divisional luncheon. I think she took the wind out of the sails of many potential critics (who possibly felt political or anti-feminine prejudice). She neatly summed up the vast problem of London's traffic by saying that it was caused by too many people living in too small an area, all moving about far too much and buying far too many things. And she then took the problem apart in a very professional way. The national president, K. C. Turner, thanked Mrs. Phillips for her "very precise address" and described the occasion as one of his swansong appearances; he is standing down after five years as president, and D. H. Joyce, London chairman, rightly spoke of the added stature with which Ken Turner had endowed the TRTA.