Future Pattern of Transport
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EEXISTING forms of transport should be locked together in their interests and economics and have an overall national policy, suggested Lord Balfour of Incluye, P.C., MC., at the anniversary luncheon of the Institute of Transport in London on Tuesday. He also said that the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation should be a member of the Cabinet.
As a former Under-Secretary of State for Air, much of his speech was devoted to air transport, which, he said, would eventually be more strongly competitive with all other forms.
Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, Minister of Transport, declared that the public should be the arbiters of the transport they wanted to use. As he watched the new pattern of transport, he believed that the politicians were often wrong,
The railways had a feeling of uncertainty regarding charges, but they had an immense future.
Mr, John Elliot, president, said that now the " battle of transport" was over, the dead and dying should be quietly removed and the wounded built up and restored to service, Those now in charge should be left reasonably alone to carry on with the job in the interests of transport users, who finally paid for everything.
Traffic . peakswere the most costly, because some three-quarters of the equipment to move masses of people must stand idle for much of the time. It was the duty of the Institute of Transport to study and debate transport problems, speak with independence and leave politics to politicians.