"Traffic Will Never Return to Rail"
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A STRONG protest against the
decision to raise railway freight rates has been lodged with the Minister of Transport by the Federation of British Industries. "The mere passing on of increased costs to the transport user will not of itself remedy the basic problem of the railways, for traffic will continue to drift from the railways to other means which will provide cheaper rates and more efficient service," it States.
The F.B.I. transport committee is convinced that a great deal of the traffic which has left the railways in recent
years will never return. Much of the road transport organization of the country has now become integrated into the structure of industry and commerce. for many of whose traffics road transport is a cheaper, more efficient and more convenient medium." says the Federation. "To place any limitation on this wholly natural and proper development would in the end lower the efficiency of industry and raise pro duction costs."