ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN THE NORTH SIR, —The current issue of
the Commercial Motor publishes the following statement, not previously reported, which was made by Lord Hurcomb, Chairman of the British Transport Commission, at a recent Press con- ference referring to the Northern Area Scheme for Road Passenger Transport. ".The Commission " (said Lord Hurcomb) " is working out the final details of the scheme and proposes to continue with it, despite opposition." This is a truly astonishing pronouncement ' • the operative words are the last two—" despite opposition." If Lord Hurcomb has been correctly reported, they mean that the B.T.C. intends to ignore the undertaking given by the Minister of Transport (Mr. A. Barnes) when he said at Edinburgh in September, 1949, that in completing the scheme he had no intention of overriding local opinion. There can be no question today that local opinion in the Northern Area, as represented by the local ?.uthorities, by the Press and the general public represented by the Omnibus Passengers Protection Association with 1 io,000 members, is strongly opposed to any area scheme of the nature indicated in the précis which was submitted by the Transport Commission a year ago.—Yours
R. Essimm-linx. (Organising Secretary, Omnibus Passengers Protection Association).
18 Jesmond Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ?.
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