U.S. RAILWAYS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1933, Page 5

U.S. RAILWAYS

A NEW ERA IS ENVISAGED

SWEEPING CONSOLIDATION' URGED

NEW YORE, February 14

A new era in United States transportation, with adequat e regulation, and concentrating upon insuring the most efficient service at the lowest competitive cost, ig envisaged in the report of th e National Transportation Committee published on Tuesday night.

The Committee urges tli e sweeping consolidation of the railroads on a regional basis In order to eliminate “‘the vast and wasteful duplicatio ;n of facilities and services.”

The report sets forth that these groupings of railways should be enforced by Governmental action where necessary. Th e Committee are looking eventually to a single national railroad system'.

The report, which is the result of more than four'months’ labour, most of it under th o late Air Calvin Coolulge, contends that the inland waterways of the country should be made to pay their own way, or else be abandoned. It says the proposed St. Lawrence deep waterway, now in the Treaty fitaern between Canada and the United States, should be built only if it can meet this test.

The report has anxiously been awaited by large investors in America s twenty million doll? 1 ’ railway system.