Marsh meets Merseyside PTA
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• As a result of the work of the local Steering Committee over the past seven years, they had a broad acceptance of what it was desirable to achieve, said Alderman Macdonald Steward, chairman of the Merseyside PTA, when Mr. Richard Marsh. Minister of Transport, attended the Authority's meeting in Liverpool last Friday.
The PTA accepted that the dialogue was finished and the time had come for action. The position of director-general had been advertised but they were not going to make the appointment until convinced that they had the right man for the job. A short list would be prepared in a fortnight's time. At the outset they wanted the best use made of the existing assets, this to be followed by a careful look at the possibilities for future development. This was the first meeting he had had with a full operating PTA. said Mr. Marsh. Its activities would mean that the right balance of transport would be produced from the passengers' point of view. What was surprising was not that the concept had been evolved but that it had taken so long to attain respectability.
At a Press conference earlier in the day Mr. Marsh said that as time permitted he was tryine to get into the country and to see the situation from ground level. People were asking if we were not putting too much faith in containers. All the evidence was that their use would continue to increase and it was expected that by 1973 movements of the order of 14m to 15m tons would be by this means.