Discussion on Papers 7 and 8

M r D. E Glover, FICE

I should like to refer to the impact on my own life of changes in the transport scene. I first debated transport in public in 1936 when I was a schoolboy. The debate was brief and lacking in detail, but is there any doubt that the media will oversimplify the present debate—as it did then—under the headline 'Roads versus railways'? Such gross simplification is to be avoided.

I can trace my family involvement in transport back to the coaching days, and I do not think I have any psychological attachment to any particular mode of transport. However, I could be wrong, because I think I detect in many people, who think they have proven solutions to the complex problems, a deep personal leaning towards one mode or another.