[Redbook2:83A-B][19760303:0000b]{Railways into Busways
[continued]}[3rd
March 1976]
1976.03.03
[continued]
The
greatest (and perhaps the only) virtue of the Reading Study is that
it pinpointed for public notice what is (despite the traditional
railway management view of it as an advantage) possibly the greatest
single present disadvantage of railways as a system of transport:
their incompatibility with roads. Despite containers, piggy-back and
rail-road vehicles, there is as yet no economically feasible way in
which the road vehicle user can obtain for himself and his vehicle
the full potential of the rail system. This, a commonplace though it
may seem to us (only because we have grown up with it), is one of the
major reasons why, in developed societies, the railways as economic
enterprises are dying.
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