ABSTRACT
This chapter considers policies for investing in city transport in Britain, with particular reference to public transport. The model of overlays of transport, however, only relates to passenger movement. The picture is different for freight movement, where the old pattern of centrally located railway goods depots, serviced by short distance road cartage, has largely been swept away. The combined influences of municipalization, service quality and quantity, and the technical superiority which electric trams acquired over other modes of transport at the time, led to major expansion. Transport projects to benefit included extension and modernization of the London Underground, railway electrification and modernization, the construction of arterial roads, and accelerated programmes of investment in tramway replacement. The Glasgow underground came into Glasgow Corporation ownership in the 1920s and was transferred to Strathclyde passenger transport executive in 1973.
