Good Relations' TRTA President
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I HAVE never seen the relations between the RHA and TRTA in better trim than they are at the moment, both nationally and locally. Nowhere is our common interest better displayed than in relation to roads. And nowhere is it more important that we should make known our views—loud and clear--to those responsible for the road programme." This was a theme developed by Mr. K. C. Turner. "FRTA president, at the annual dinner of Devon and Cornwall Division on Friday.
Mr. Turner said he did not question the economic need for certain aspects of public expenditure to be held back, nor did he doubt the difficulty of deciding what should be sacrificed to make possible the much larger road programme that most people would like to see. But he did question se:iously the wisdom of postponing the road programme. He went on: " I have a shrewd suspicion that, put to a free vote of the population, we should find that most people would divide the national cake in a way which would give a higher proportion to roads and less to other things.