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T I If:SPEED with which the Ml was repaired at Junction

14th December 1985
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

8 in FIertfordshire last summer, confounding all doom-laden forecasts of crippling delays to traffic. has set a standard by which all other road works will in future be judged. Holes in the road have lost their aesthetic charm, especially those dug and bodged by public utilities.

As the Freight Transport Association has pointed out, repairs would be needed far less frequently if' road surfaces were made just a little thicker. Moreover, the road user who pays the piper, rather than the politician, should call the tone it, structural in standards. Finally, when big repairs are needed there should be adequate alternative routes so that traffic is not seriously disrupted.

Are these things too much to ask when a heavy lorry costs on average C_24 an hour to run and a large lump of that sum goes to the Exchequer?

And may One hope that someone will at last put into effect the recommendation of Professor I forne's working party on die Public Utilities Street Works Act, I950, calling for minimum standards of repairs to roads dug up by gas, water, electricity and telephone undertakings? They have been crying out for adoption or years and call for no more than the exercise of that rare faculty, commonsense.

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