My hon. Friend has dismissed a good deal of what the Traffic Advisory Committee said rather lightly as being limitations and qualifications. It is true that that committee expressed broad sympathy with the idea but they did say that there was no evidence of public demand, that such a service would not tend to relieve pressure upon existing traffic facilities, that it would not be comparable in quickness and that the Passenger Transport Board was the authority best qualified to operate a regular service. Finally they said that there was a poor prospect of such a service being self-supporting. I do not feel that the London Passenger Transport Board, having regard to the present state of its finances—it is unable at the moment to fulfil its statutory obligations to one class of its stockholders—ought to be called upon to run what in normal times would be mainly a pleasure service at a loss, neither do I think the ratepayers of London ought to be asked to shoulder such a liability. If subsequently it should appear that such a service would be likely to be a paying proposition, the Passenger Transport Board would be the proper authority, and not the county council, to operate such a service.