'Follow Buchanan'
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I F' bus services in Oxford -were to he improved, the city council must consider its future policy for the city's traffic in the light of the Buchanan Report, Mr. W. M. Drawers, chairman of the City of Oxford Motor Services Ltd., said last week.
Mr. Drawers, who was speaking at the annual dinner for long-serving employees of the company, said the Report gave a brilliant analysis of urban traffic problems. both present and future.
No city the site of Oxford would be able soon to accept the volume of car traffic that wanted to enter it, especially at peak periods, and great reliance would have to be placed on public transport.
" are only too ready and willing In play our part. But Buchanan's message is really useless unless we can have freedom to move ", he said. " Buses have got to be able to run with a reasonable degree of regularity and punctuality. which they cannot do at the momentbec,pasc of congestion in and near the
centre."
Mr. Drovers said that ways and means were being examined of improving some of the services. " But the first burden is on the city council, which must consider the future policy of Oxford's traffic in the light of the Buchanan Report. and I hope it will do it soon."
Mr. Drawers spoke also of the service to the company of Mr. T. P. Sheridan, (lie general manager, who is to retire in March. " He has been a busman for more than 40 years_ He started in 1921 as a driver, became an inspector, and moved gradually and surely up the ladder.
" Mr. Sheridan came to Oxford in 1936, and no one knows more about the difficult:es of running buses in and around Oxford than he does ", he said.