We'll take our own road—SAP1
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SCOTLAND should have I own Transport Minister. T1 is one of the demands made 1 the Scottish Association f Public Transport in its atni. sion on the Governmeni transport policy Green Pap( The group, which wants see the integration of all pu lic transport, say that it do not contain practical prvosi to implement the "sound" pri ciples on which the Gover ment inquiry was set up.
Failure to realise the prc lems of Scottish transport one of their main complain They say there is a need fot Scottish Transport Depa ment responsible to a Scotti Transport Minister in the So tish Assembly.
The group says that oil cc servation has been ignored a accuses the Government assuming that the public wai expansion in the road •transp field. Misleading statist have been used in .coming conclusions they say.
The Government is critici; for freezing rail investmi and Government support rail services with particu reference to the electrificat of lines in Scotland.