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Proper Statistics Would Show Road Transport in a Better Light
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ALACK of suitable statistical information is, in the opinion of Mr. W. A. Winson, chairman of S.P.D., Ltd., creating a grave injustice to the haulage industry. He suggests that the advent af the motor vehicle demands a completely new traffic-operating policy, in which its greater mobility can be exploited to the utmost.
It will not be at all difficult, he adds, to demonstrate by proper statistics how utterly wrong is the present policy of eliminating so-called redundancy in road transport without applying the same restrictive efforts to other forms of transport.
A national statistical investigation on all forms of traffic movement should be undertaken in order to lay down the foundations of a just and efficient national transport system. Under present conditions, although there is sufficient traffic offering to justify the licensing of more road vehicles, there is no certainty that licences will be granted, merely because of the contention that railway services are available, although these may be less efficient from every point of view than is road transport.