Dead slow on roads
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HE PRESENT allocation of reources, division of responsibil ty and administrative procelures means that progress on ondon's transport problems is ainfully slow, according to the ireater London Council.
And it claims the transport ystem is not playing an ffective role in revitalising the conomy.
In written evidence to the ouse of Commons transport mmittee, which is investigatlg transport in London, the GLC
3id that the Council should be
me responsible responsible for planning Id allocation of resources body
)1all major aspects of the capi
il's transport and it should reive adequate funding to enire an effective programme for iproving London's transport /stem.
GLC planning and commu'cations policy committee ader Alan Greengross feels
at London is paralysed in the chnologically minded Eighties r road networks of the Thirties.
"London's traffic has ineased 250 per cent since 1950 t its roads have not kept pace.
le amount we are allowed to lend at present is out of scale th what is needed. Despite the ct that one-eighth of the UK's ipulation lives in the capital, it
solved less than one-twentieth all trunk road expenditure in e Seventies," claimed Mr -eengross.
The GLC is also critical of the )y London's roads are funded, Greengross was unhappy out the capital's infrastructure d said that Government must vide long-term funding.