Friday, December 1, 1972
MASS TRANSIT "FOR THE MASSES"
The Assistant Commissioner for Transport, Mr. Richard Butler, today
called for "rules of the road to displace anarchy" as interim measures to ease
road congestion before the proposed mass transit system is completed.
However, he stressed that such rules should also be made a permanent
feature even after the materialisation of the system because of the increasing
demand for public transport.
Mr. Butler was giving a talk on the underground railway at the
"Point of View" series organised by the YMCA in Salisbury Road.
The mass transit, he said, would be unlikely to cause large numbers of
private motorists to give up their cars voluntarily.
However, he said: "If we are prepared to consider spending over
$6,000 million to ensure that one-third of our public transport is fast and
reliable, surely it is worthwhile deliberately ordering our priorities for
road-use and disciplining on-street activity to conform to these priorities."
He strongly believed that a speedy introduction of constraints aimed
at promoting public transport and discouraging private transport would bring
about agreed priorities in the use of the existing limited road space.
"In ordering our priorities the demands of the private car for road
space, particularly in peak hours, must receive a priority which reflects its
relative unimportance as a passenger-mover compared with public transport and
that deliberate constraints should implement this," Mr. Butler said.
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