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SOME VITAL PROBLEMS
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The Urgent Need for Unity of Action. The Limitation of Duplication of Long-distance Coaches. Ticket Restrictions. Railway Fare-cutting and Special Railway Excursions Services
M ANY and varied are the problems--now almost • wholly brought about by restrictions—of coach and bus owners. Perhaps inevitably, and cer
• tainly unfortunately, the tide of competition between rail and road is rising with the downpour of railwayinspired legislation, regulations, conditions, and forms and schedules in such profusion that the ingenuity of Ministry of Transport officials must be sorely taxed in inventing identification codes for them all. The noose of red tape into which, be it admitted, some operators have unwarily thrust their heads, has become uncomfortably, tight around their necks.
Some operators of long-distance services are harassed by the limitation of the duplication of coaches, whilst all are adversely affected by the fare-cutting tactics of the railways. Concerns working seasonal express services in the South-Eastern Area are embarrassed by unnecessary restrictions on the issue of single and periodreturn tickets.
These are but three of the numerous problems facing the coach and bus owner, all of which could doubtless be mitigated. if not completely overcome, by unity of action in carrying out an aggressive campaign for fairplay for road transport. On this and following pages we discuss in greater detail some of the most urgent problems of the road passenger-transport industry.