End Transport Monopolies, Call by Liberals
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FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT
A CALL for a repeal of clauses in road'
and rail traffic acts "which have created the present goods and passenger monopolies and restrictions" will be made when the Liberals hold their annual assembly at Edinburgh in September. This demand is included in the points which Hastings and St. Leonards will ask the meeting to endorse as the basic principles of the party's policy for roads.
The town's spokesmen will also ask for a repeal of the present laws concerning the road user, and their replacement by 'laws which are based on the assumption that the majority of drivers are honest and responsible persons, are clear and based on reason rather than prejudice." All the money which the road user has to find should be allocated to road improvements, says the motion, which asks that classified roads should rapidly be improved to "the minimum requirements of safety."
These are defined as either a dual carriageway, where more economic or demanded by traffic density, or for lighter traffic three-lane carriageways.
A motion from Twickenham speaks of the "transport chaos" which faces this country. It asks the Party Councils to present to the next assembly their thinking on six problems, including the increasing congestion on Britain's "outdated' roads and the enormous losses incurred by British Railways.