Low Bridges Raise
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Bus Costs
" IT is really scandalous that, in this new, progressive Elizabethan age, there should still be hundreds of railway level crossings to hold up road traffic and play havoc with carefully dovetailed bus schedules, and, even worse, that there should be so many low underbridges with inadequate headroom for double-deckers.
"Vast tracts of this country are restricted to single-deck services with cons6quent quite unnecessarily high cost of operation, when, by the expenditure of what from a national point of view would be quite trifling sums, the roads under those bridges could be lowered and double-deck buses put into operation under them," Mr. Raymond Birch, vice-president of the Institute c Transport, told the East Midlan section at a dinner in Nottingham la: week.
Bus operators paid enormous surr in road taxation, but when they wante a road lowered they had to make spech arrangements with the highwa authority and even had to pay agai towards the cost of making the ma fit for the traffic it ought to be able t carry in any. case, he continued.
Mr. Birch said that all transport rnt were impatient with the Treasury attitude to the industry, and he adde( "The Treasury's motto is tak all an give nowt' and apart from giving som• thing, it is about time they took less