RAILWAYS versus ROADS.
I have written so much in these columns of late concerning what I venture to regard as shortcomings in railroad organiza- tion that I feel I must not do more than draw attention in a few lines to criticisms which have appeared from another quarter in a little pamphlet entitled Railways versus Roads. The writer is Mr. E. H. Davenport, a well-known economist in the City, and the main point of his pamphlet consists in the contention that the railways should meet some of the motor- car traffic, both as regards passengers and goods, by getting on to the roads themselves. There is a good deal which might be urged in support of Mr. Davenport's contention, though I cannot help wishing, in view of the present congestion of the road traffic, that, if possible, railroad traffic should be kept to the steel metals and to the permanent way.
A. W. K.
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