R.H.A. Official Warns C-licensees
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THE right of C-licensees to choose the system of transport they prefer was championed last week by Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive .officer of the Road Haulage Association, at the Western Area dinner at Bristol.
Taking his cue from Mr. F. D. Arney, general manager of Port of Bristol Authority, who declared that it was entirely wrong that transport should be made a political shuttlecock, Mr. Morton Mitchell said the Socialists would not be content to take over several thousand haulage vehicles. They intended to restrict C-licensees and in so doing they would alienate the whole of trade and industry. Every operator should do his best to prevent the election of a government that would restrict his business for purely doctrinaire reasons.
Mr. Morton Mitchell announced that the Association's new policy statement would be issued in about a month's time.
Mr. T. D. Corpe demanded immediate action .to deal with traffic congestion in Bristol. 14 was not, he said. a question of removing parked vehicles. A • new through route and at least one new bridge • were urgently needed.
[Bristol Architects Forum have evolved a scheme to solve the traffic problem. They propose a pedestrian deck 20 ft. above the Centre, fly-overs, new roads and other innovations at a cost of' £41m. They say the scheme can he carried out over 20 years and that with subsidies the cost to the city would be no greater than Jim.)