19 FEBRUARY 1960, Page 14

BRITISH TRANSPORT

SIR,—Your correspondent Mr. K. F. A. Johnston advocates help to our railways; and Mr. John Allen May says that cars are economic and should be encouraged. More economic for ten men to be in one carriage or in ten cars? More economic to take farm land for motorways? And how do cars compare with railways if we think of human life and health?

A man in a train can relax; a driver of a car is using up nervous energy; and there are more accidents on the roads than on railways. Does this not matter? —Yours faithfully,