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Marshalling Covent Garden Lorries
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From our Political Correspondent ov of e the 3.e the
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T° improve lot 000-4,000 vehicles which jam Covent Garden Market each d'ay, action is being taken by the Market Authority to provide a marshalling system. Followihg the experimental provision of a small marshalling yard at Dodson Street, off Waterloo Road, the Authority has taken an option on a larger site of 14acres south-west of Vauxhall Bridge. This site should be ready in between six and eight weeks to cope with up to 120 large vehicles at a time. There will be a canteen provided, and it is proposed to use this park as a place to which delivery vehicles will be diverted until Covent Garden can take them. Later, it is hoped, the yard will be able to cope with, collecting vehicles as well, and vehicles trading with other markets. Legislation is expected in the next session of Parliament (provided there is no General Election this year) to move the Covent Garden Market from its present site to an area where it can expand and where the present crippling traffic congestion problem will be solved. The Covent Garden Market Authority is studying an experts' report which comes out wholeheartedly in favour of a 90-acre site at Beckton, close by the Royal Albert and King George V docks. A new railway marshalling yard is planned near this site, and it is considered that rail access could be provided direct to traders' premises. The road situation around the new site is not at present very good, but major schemes now being planned to improve access to the Port of London will assist the outward movement of produce. Traffic conditions at the present site off the Strand are clearly becoming impossible. Collecting lorries spend an average of 3 hours a day trying to do their work. Finding they are not needed when they arrive, drivers cruise around the streets— or a e to time and somewhere to park they can— returning to the market from time to see when they can get close enough to the traders to do business with them. The Beckton site will have space for the development of storage warehouses, overnight accommodation for lorry drivers, and garage and repair facilities. It would permit full mechanization of handling (unheard of at the present site). T.R.T.A. Vehicles Committee MR. H. B. PHILLIPS, George Cohen 600 group, was elected chairman of the vehicles committee of the T.R.T.A. at its inaugural meeting on Wednesday. weighty agenda matters discussed on a agenda were: diesel fuel and black smoke; new regulations relating to driving licences and re marker lamps; plating of goods vehicles; security of vehicle registration books and the waxing of fuel. The committee decided to make a special feature of dealing with complaints and queries from members.