More Passengers Prefer the Road
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STABILIZATION, combined with increasing industrial prosperity and the growth of the travel habit, seem to have brought still further support to the road passenger transport industry. Revenue, passenger traffic, mileage and the number of vehicles in service have all increased, although we regret to note the continued passing of the small operator. We are not alone in this view, for some of the Traffic Commissioners are apprehensive of the trend of absorption.
The Sixth Annual Reports of the Traffic Commissioners, 1936-37, which were published this week, afford a large-scale survey of the industry, although they provide few pointers to official policy in connection with road passenger transport. One of the most important pronouncements is that of the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, who describes a scheme for the establishment 4of bus stations on the periphery of the congested central area of London. His idea is that services should be curtailed at those points, so that a higher frequency could be given in the suburbs than in the central area, according to traffic demands.
This proposition is in direct contravention of• the movement initiated by London Transport for the restriction of the use of cars in the central area, so that there shall be more room for buses.