The Transport Bill On Monday the London Transport Bill received
its second reading in the House of Commons by 271 votes to 224, and was then referred to a Joint Committee. Free competition in the past gave London cheap and highly efficient transport services, but all except a few fanatics agree that the days of competition have rightly given place to the days of regulation. Competition and conges- tion have become indistinguishable. All that we desire is that the proposed Traffic Board should be as little bureaucratic as possible. Mr. Morrison is all in favour of the Board carrying on its work on "strictly business principles," but we are doubtful whether that -desirable condition will be secured by putting the Board under the control of the Minister of Transport who is necessarily a political partisan. The Committee will no doubt look carefully into this matter.
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