{Railways into Busways [continued]}[3rd March 1976]

[Redbook2:83B][19760303:0000e]{Railways into Busways [continued]}[3rd March 1976]

1976.03.03

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Any replacement track system designed to use the physical trackbed structures and routes of the railway system must offer these advantages — as the Reading Study's proposals do not. It must also, if possible, allow, for vehicles travelling on it, a far greater physical and economic compatibility with the road system — which the Reading Study, in theory if not in practice, does. Such a possibility has only within the last few years moved out of the realms of Science Fiction and into the area of distinct, though long-term, possibility. If the railway system, as a system of routes rather than as a system of operation, is to survive independently of the winds of politics, this possibility must be closely studied.

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