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lberals to Discuss Transport Policy
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FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT E. Liberal party annual conference. )ntidently expected to be the last e the General Election, will be asked ighton next Wednesday to approve the broad outline of a transport y.
a major debate during the afternoon )n of that day, Mr. Eric Lubbock, for Orpington, will move a five
• resolution aimed at giving the 's parliamentary and national a-ship a mandate to decide details 3licy for themselves.
large number of demands and ons are expected to come from ig the 1,500 delegates present. These be taken into account when the produces its detailed policy statesome time between next week and lect ion campaign.
is is the party leadership's solution e problem which followed the rejecby last year's conference of parts le policy then put forward. it is that free-for-all licensing has been doned, hot very little of exactitude It present be read from the resoluor from a new general policy docujust issued. " Partners in a New in ".
c resolution calls for the integration :ransport planning with national, nal and town and country planning. hat investments and closures are ed with the overall provision of 7...s, jobs and leisure faciliiies.
then calls for the co-ordination of rail, canal, sea and air services in
the community interest, and for " the most economic use " of transport facilities, the replanning of city traffic and the improvement of rural bus services, especially in areas affected by rail closures.
The Liberal aim to develop economic use of transport is based on two requirements—the concentration of rail services into providing fast long-distance haulage, and a survey of social costs imposed by other means of transport (particularly heavy road traffic) so that taxes and licence duties can be "distributed more equitably ".
1 understand that this latter requirement means that the party leadership wishes to investigate the ton-mileage costs of heavy vehicles plus the demands they make on the road system. compared with the costs and demands of other vehicles. There is a suspicion that the heavies may not he paying their full share.
It is also probable that the liberals. while not -interfering openly with freedom. will want to make it somewhat more expensive to obtain C licences. The argument is that if more C licences mean better service, they also mean more congestion, and the cost involved might he a decisive factor if balanced properly.
Basically, the party planners now appear to favour the movement of more heavy long-distance traffic by rail. They are also keen to discover the losses and disturbances unconnected with strict haulage finance which occur on road routes, and to have them paid for.