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RAILWAYS CANNOT SUPPORT NON-PAYING BUSES

4th April 1958, Page 49
4th April 1958
Page 49
Page 49, 4th April 1958 — RAILWAYS CANNOT SUPPORT NON-PAYING BUSES
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

BECAUSE the railways had already 1-.0 spent enormous sums on unremunerative routes, they could not he .expected to support non-paying bus routes as well, said Sir Reginald Wilson, president of the Institute of Transport, when he addressed the Northern Section at their annual dinner.

Referring to rural transport facilities, he said that uneconomic routes were inevitable in any network of services. The product of transport in the northern area amounted to £40m. annually.