New "Staggeri ng " Committee
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A NEW committee to study the staggering of working hours in London, is to be set up by the Minister of Transport. It will undertake this work to relieve the London Transport Consultative Committee, but the chairman will be Mr. J. Fitzgerald, chairman of this committee.
In the House of Commons last week the Minister said that the proposed terms of reference of the new committee would be to consider and to set in train further measures for the staggering of working hours to relieve peak congestion of services to and from central London by the London Transport Executive and British • Railways, and la review 'changes in the day-time population. of Central London. The cOMMittee, may recommend to the
A32 Minister any measures which it considers desirable but cannot initiate itself.
Mr. Ernest Davies asked whether the Minister was satisfied that the appointment of the new commjttee was the most expeditious way of dealing with the matter. It was urgent that immedi ate action be taken. The Minister thought to the contrary. "This is a very difficult technical question," he said. "We have to balance buses and trains and all other means of arrival."
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