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Differing Views on Standing Passengers: Crush-loaders Decried
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JARYING opinions about how many V passengers should be allowed to tand in public-service vehicles were xpressed last week when a Standing ommittee of the House of Commons iscussed amendments to the Transport harges, etc. (Miscellaneous Provisions) Mr. Ernest Davies put forward an
nendment to limit the number of inding passengers to five. He desired limit the powers of the Minister of -ansport to issue regulations in this ;pect, and could not see why it was cessary that there should be in the winces a larger number of standing ssengers than in London. "If the dertakings made the effort," he served, "they would be able to pro'e sufficient room for all passengers, Iecially if the number were fixed at !, as in London."
file Minister said that he took full Donsibility for saying that the maxi m number of standing passengers ;ht to be eight, and in making that ision he had not yielded to pressure n any interested party.
Ir. W. Keenan was opposed to ;ding in p.s.v.s in any circumstances, Mr. Rees-Davies declared; " We t have buses introduced which may wholly ` standee ' buses at peak is." He believed that the system of 'ic transport in Britain was deplorand wished to see experiments and freshing change.
r. Davies' amendment d.
r. A. J. Champion prod an amendment to ban use of " standee-type " ;. He said that he had
once been a conductor on a railway vehicle and had to collect fares in the same way as might obtain with buses of the maximum-load type. "1 never had a more unpleas'ant job in my life," he remarked. "I stood it for exactly a fortnight."
Mr. A. Hargreaves said that to allow a large number to stand in a bus would not improve economy. In London, the number of standing passengers was limited in the buses but not in the underground trains. The buses were profitable but the trains were not. Similarly in Paris, where to stand rather than sit was the rule, the transport losses were "astronomic."
The Minister said that experiments with maximum-load buses had so far been inconclusive, but there appeared to be reasonable ground for thinking that for dealing with peak loads, or routes where passengers travelled only short distances, there might be a use for vehicles of such construction. His department had no intention of authorizing vehicles that were unsafe.
The amendment was negatived.
REITER ROADS FOR AUSTRIA
AUSTR1AN roads are to be extended from the present 5,627 miles to 6,275 miles at a cost of about 110m. a year for the next 10 years. Special attention is to be given to maintenance. Approximately 119m. has been spent on roads since 1945.