Member

Amendment 32 is about demand-responsive transport. I put this in because this is not a forward-looking Bill. I said this at Second Reading. There is a great deal of the Attlee Government in this Bill, as if we are trying to get back to the way it used to work when it was all so much better. Of course, it all started going wrong in the 1960s. Let us be frank—the noble Lord, Lord Bradshaw, would not say this—it was not traffic that was the problem, it was the spread of the personal motor car in large numbers that was the cause of the traffic. That is why things started changing from the 1960s onwards, and in the 1970s in particular, as foreseen by Sir Colin Buchanan in the report that he wrote and published in 1963. T Dan Smith was also one of the progenitors of that report, interestingly, so there was a northern element to it.