A Lancashire Traffic Census.
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Reporting on a recent traffic census which was undertaken in the county, the Lancashire. County Council states that for the purpose of comparison the returns were taken on seven consecutive day of 16 hours each in the month qf August last, at the same points on various roads as those taken in August, 1922.
020 The census reveals that the total tonnage per day on direct control and rural roads was 375.882 this year as compared with 245,963 in 1922, and the tonnage on the non-county borough and urban roads was 465,416 as compared with 335,635 three years ago. It will thus be seen that there was a total increase in weight in the three years of 259,700 tons per day, the increase on Class I rural niads being 528 per cent, and on urban roads 38.7 per cent.
Trafford Road, within the urban district of Stretford, still carries the heaviest trafficof any road within the county, the daily average weight with which it deals having increased from 14,794 tons in 1922 to 18.752 tons in 1925.
It is interesting to note that, although the Preston-Blackpool road is used mainly by passenger-carrying vehicles, the • lucorda show that the daily weight of heavy commercial vehicles, excluding motorbuses and chars-a-bancs, is 5,277 tons.