EEC bottled up
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A TOTAL of 3660 miles of road in the Common Market countries — 696 of them in Britain — have been classed as bottlenecks in a report on • the "deteriorating" state of the EEC's transport infrastructure, reports our Brussels correspondent.
The report, approved by the EEC Commission this month, also covers railways and waterways and provides the first overall picture of the inadequacies of the EEC's communications network.
It was prepared at the request of the Council of Ministers who wanted to know the extent of Europe's communications problem.
The next step in the fight for improvements is to get Ministerial permission for spending EEC funds on infrastructure schemes instead of leaving it to national governments.
The EEC Commission is wasting no time: last month it brought 200 representatives of transport firms and civil servants to Brussels to discuss the situation.
According to EEC Transport Commissioner Richard Burke, -There are problems on the principal community routes and they are getting worse.