Passenger Vehicles and Speed Limit.
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TN the House of Commons Mr. _ILNaylor raised the question as to what steps were being taken by the Ministry to ensure that the time schedules of the passenger-transport companies were arranged so as to enable drivers of coaches to keep to time without exceeding the 30-m.p.h. speed limit.
Mr. Morrison pointed out that Section 72 of the Road Traffic Act provided that the Traffic Commissioners should not grant a road-service licence in respect of any route if it appeared to them, from the particulars as to journey times required to be furnished under that section, that the speedlimit provision of the Act was likely to be contravened. The Commissioners were also empowered to attach conditions to a read-service licence for securing the safety and convenience of the public. It had to be borne in mind that the Commissioners had . only recently started work, and that, so far, only a proportion of the passenger road services throughput the country had been brought under their review. The Minister's jurisdiction in these matters arose only in the event of an appeal being lodged under Section 81
of the Act. He hoped the provisions referred to -would prove effective, with the co-operation of the police, in the enforcement of the general law.