'Support Transport with Property Levy'
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ikPROPOSAL that a form of rate should be levied on property development, especially in city centres, to contribute towards the public transport services which they generate, was put forward last week by Mr. R. M. Robbins, chief commercial and public relations officer of London Transport.
As public transport was improved, so city-centre properties became more valuable, said Mr. Robbins, and but for public transport nobody would make any money out of central London offices. He suggested that a levy based on rates assessment would be acceptable to the public.
London would need a vastly improved transport system in the future, he said, a system which would be costly, and the present method of finding the whole cost out of fares could not continue indefinitely.
By 1981, some 1,670,000 people would work in central London, but only 300,000 would live there, Mr. Robbins forecast.