T "YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO WALK" HE future slogan for public
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transport should be "You can't afford to walk," the Midlands section of the Institute of Transport was told last week by Cllr. A. B. Briggs (Lincoln). Imagination was the key-word, including imagination in the design of vehicles, he said.
For shorter journeys there should be far less luxury with greater capacity.
He was against subsidies and thought services should either pay their way or be abandoned. It was also naive to tell the public that because running costs had gone up by 300 per cent. fares had to be similarly increased.
"Argue with people's pockets and they will accept your argument—but they will walk," he declared.
FRENCH OUTPUT UP
FRENCH factories produced 149,085 commercial vehicles in the first nine months of this year, compared with 128,589 in the corresponding period of 1956. Exports of commercial vehicles rose by 27 per cent., with a total of 23,672 units sent abroad.