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Contents Listing - Articles & Features in this issue
THE RAC SPEAKS
NEW ARTICULATED CARS FOR BASEL
ENERGY FOR TRANSPORT
NEW WORKS CARS FOR FRANKFURT/ MAIN
TRANSPORT IN CALCUTTA - Part 9: Other urban road transport and suburban rail services
JAPAN TODAY - Part 7: Northern limits
LETTERS
REVIEWS
WORLDNEWS
FROM THE SECRETARY
DIARY
On the cover - The new look for Basel's suburban routes. Car 201 is the first of a batch of 30 destined for routes 11, 12 and 14.
Article Snippets
The RAC speaks:
THE RAC must have been busy at the end of April hunting through its files of 25-35 years ago to find out what trams were and what they said about them. The 'Times' of 29 April reported that "The idea of bringing back electric trains to conserve fuel was attacked as a threat to safety by the Royal Automobile Club yesterday." It was all because Mr William Rodgers, Secretary of State for Transport had stated earlier in the week that more research on trams was to be carried out. This work is being undertaken at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory under government sponsorship after a recommendation by the Advisory Council on Energy Conservation.
And, of course, the RAC dug out all its old cliches about accidents being caused by cyclists and others being caught in tram tracks, though it must be a long time since theRAC took the side of cyclists. However, to keep things a bit more up-to-date, the RAC added that "He have seen what awful conisestion the bus lanes cause. With tracks in the road there would be even more problems".
We always thought that congestion was caused by the number of cars which use our road space so inefficiently, rather than by traffic measures which attempt to discipline the cars and lorries which obstruct public transport. But then the RAC doesn't claim to speak for the majority who use public transport, and it shows itself to be just a selfish club with little interest in benefits to the community. On the whole, we are hardly surprised. In the past we have never been very enthusiastic about the TRRL's activities but we certainly await their report with interest.
THE RAC must have been busy at the end of April hunting through its files of 25-35 years ago to find out what trams were and what they said about them. The 'Times' of 29 April reported that "The idea of bringing back electric trains to conserve fuel was attacked as a threat to safety by the Royal Automobile Club yesterday." It was all because Mr William Rodgers, Secretary of State for Transport had stated earlier in the week that more research on trams was to be carried out. This work is being undertaken at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory under government sponsorship after a recommendation by the Advisory Council on Energy Conservation.
And, of course, the RAC dug out all its old cliches about accidents being caused by cyclists and others being caught in tram tracks, though it must be a long time since theRAC took the side of cyclists. However, to keep things a bit more up-to-date, the RAC added that "He have seen what awful conisestion the bus lanes cause. With tracks in the road there would be even more problems".
We always thought that congestion was caused by the number of cars which use our road space so inefficiently, rather than by traffic measures which attempt to discipline the cars and lorries which obstruct public transport. But then the RAC doesn't claim to speak for the majority who use public transport, and it shows itself to be just a selfish club with little interest in benefits to the community. On the whole, we are hardly surprised. In the past we have never been very enthusiastic about the TRRL's activities but we certainly await their report with interest.
