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"Air Transport Cannot Replace Road Transport"

30th June 1961, Page 58
30th June 1961
Page 58
Page 58, 30th June 1961 — "Air Transport Cannot Replace Road Transport"
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

THERE is little prospect of air transport superseding road transport within the foreseeable future, according to Mr. J. H. H. Wilkes, Somerset County Surveyor. In his annual report he refers to the growing congestion on West country roads and the vain efforts to convince the Minister of Transport on the urgency of improvements, especially in regard to a motorway from Bristol to Exeter and Plymouth.

Mr. Wilkes considers there will have to be many more motorways, and that forecasts of large-scale transport by helicopter are unlikely to be realized.

IL is possible, he says, that the hovercraft has a transport future, but it will still require roads even if they are not as strongly constructed as present highways. Upward and sideways blast and dust would also create serious problems in towns; so, too, would control in acceleration and stopping.

The report quotes the Director of the Chicago Area Transportation Study as saying that motor transport may be a necessary evil, " but it is a thing to be lived with. . . . Without transportation —and efficieut transportation — the society of this century does not exist."

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