{Social Railways}[9th June 1972]

[Redbook1:247][19720609:2039]{Social Railways}[9th June 1972]

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            (It is in transport that I see this [the last previous entry] most clearly.  Railways will lose money directly so long as ‘free enterprise’ allows roads full rein to the detriment of the country, and with massive hidden subsidies.  The basic motorway network is vital; but when the need is felt for loop-motorways paralleling original ones to carry extra traffic, we shall have to ask ourselves:  in a finite world, can we afford it?  Motorways create their own traffic as the first railways did.  In addition, petrol is going to run out.  Railways therefore could ‘prosper’ in a social sense in the medium-term future, given sensible policies of Government.)

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