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Road-Rail Co-ordination Impossible?
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RESOLUTIONS deprecating further restrictions on road transport have been passed by the Chambers Of Commerce of Swansea, Bristol, Glasgow, Bolton, Dundee, Newcastle, Preston, Poole, St. Albans, Huddersfield, Leicester, Liverpool, Oldham, Reading, and Southampton, said Mr. J. W. Sewill, A.R.O. Southern area organizer, at a crowded meeting of Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce, last week,
" It has recently been asked, how can one co-ordinate traffic on 177,000 miles of roads, owned and paid for by the public, and on 20,000 miles of railways, owned by a limited number of shareholders, and to which the public has not an unlimited right? " he continued.
" The railways have proved that they cannot do without road transport, as they have increased their own fleets enormously in the past few years. In fact, they seem to be at liberty to obtain any number of vehicles, whereas the haulier, who has given, and is giving, facilities which the railways never gave until forced to do so by healthy competition, cannot increase his own business.
" There has," Mr. Sewill added, " just been granted to a railway-controlled road-transport business nine additional vehicles, in spite of objections by numerous hauliers operating in the neighbourhood. I understand that those vehicles will not be used in that district at all." •