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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 8 (December 1, 1928)

Rail and Road Problems

Rail and Road Problems.

Rail and road co-ordination is bound to come in time, and here at Home the railways are giving very serious thought to possibilities of this kind. Every effort is being made to work in friendly harmony with existing road carrying concerns, and to fit in rail services as far as possible with the services offered by the established road carriers. In many districts the railways are shortly to put on the roads large fleets of road motors of their own. Parliamentary sanction to this procedure has recently been given. One of the greatest difficulties at the moment is the fact that road transport activities are being engaged in all over the country by a multitude of owner-drivers and “one-man” concerns who are most difficult to approach on the subject of co-operation, and who care little for a national road policy and the interests of the public and the carriers at large so long as they can make a living out of their vehicles. By degrees the whole problem of road transport and its relation to rail transport will be put on a proper footing, but for the time being the situation bristles with perplexities for the railways and their traffic officers.