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"S0far ø I have been influenced in my term of office at the Ministry of Transport, I have been convinced—whether you agree with me or not—that you cannot clarify this problem of the transport charges, and get each section into a situation which can be freely developed and freely considered without the complications of the different influences that run through the different parties of this country and represent different pressures at particular periods on different forms of transport, "1 have been convinced in my own mind that until you begin to solve the main problem when the bulk capital of our transport system is settled in the railways is brought into some organic relationship with the road transport, which threatened to throttle it before it has served its final usefulness in a modern community, you cannot either release the capital sums that we require, or get a sufficient unity of purpose in our public administration, to devise a system of roads in this country that would give a free and unfettered development to road transport. The passing of the Special Roads Bill to me was just a preparatory contribution to the solution of a larger
problem."—Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, addressing members of the British Road Federation.