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THE NEED FOR CHEAP TRANSPORT
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THE vital necessity of cheap and efficient transport was stressed by Sir Henry Jackson, MP., at a luncheon of the Industrial Transport Association held in London on Wednesday last. To meet this need careful planning and co-ordination of transport throughout the country had become essential, he said, and the first attempt at organization of the various methods in use was in 1924, when the London Traffic Act was passed. This has proved to be one of the greatest experiments in the world, in dealing with passenger transport, and may still be considered to be experimental.
The planning of goods transport may be said to have started with the passing of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, and the control exercised by this. and the Road Traffic Act, 1934, had become essential if road transport was
to fulfil its proper function in the life of the country. Speaking on the question of roads, Sir Henry Jackson said that it is becoming increasingly necessary carefully to examine traffic routes. Is the traffic to be regulated to the capacity of the roads, or the roads adapted to traffic needs? In road planning future needs must be carefully considered.
Mr. P. J. Hannon, M.P., president, outlined the work of the Association. In the past seven years, he said, fourteen active branches have been established, and it is hoped, in the near future, to increase this number. A public examination scheme had been created giving greatly increased facilities for the study of the subject of industrial transport, and the work of the appointments bureau was to be extended.