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Future and Rapid Transit, The by B.J. Prigmore Soft Cover British
The Future and Rapid Transit by B.J. Prigmore, M.A., M.Sc., A.M.I.E.E.
Soft bound
Copyright 1959
23 pgs
Preface.
" If public transport in major cities is to survive in a healthy condition it must sell time more efficiently so that the public will use it in preference to private transport simply because it happens to be quicker. Under present conditions one good way to do this effectively is to make increasing use of systems of transport which employ a private right of way. This trend may be observed in many principal cities throughout the world."
Introduction.
WITH THE IMMINENCE OF THE ATOMIC AGE, WHEN ELECTRICITY generated within this country will become plentiful and cheap, and with the increasing scarcity and unreliability of water-borne oil supplies from abroad, it behoves all users of other forms of energy who can electrify their plants or systems to do so at once: those who do so will obviously be best placed to reap all the benefits of atomic power immediately it becomes available. These benefits, which arise mainly from the use of electricity rather than oil or other fuels, will increase even further in value as the price of electricity becomes relatively even lower than now. Who knows, too, if it may not one day become government policy that oil should only be used for those purposes for which electricity is totally unsuited?
Urban transport offers great scope for such electrification as worthwhile new projects, or, in some cases, as extensions and upgradings of existing systems. In these a great contribution to the harnessing of atomic power to provide high-capacity urban transport, and to give progressive reduction of congestion by freeing the roads from urban transport loads, can be made by the electric rapid transit installation-a rail installation on a 20 ft. wide strip, possibly at the centre of a dual carriageway on which a fast and frequent service of modern vehicles is operated.
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