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for direction indicators are expected from the Ministry of.Transport 'soon. But Mr. John Hay, the Parliamentary Secretary, who gave this news in the Commons, added that his department were not prepared to make the use of these indicators compulsory until they had had some experience of the new type in general use.
A call for this compulsion had come from Wing Commander Grant-Ferris (dons., Nantwich), who said that,. with the present traffic conditions on motorways and other main-traffic-routes, without street lighting, this move would be in the interests of road safety. The Wing Commander: also asked for a statement about, the brilliance of indicator lights, and was told by Mr. Hay that the road transport shb-committee of the Economic Commission for Europe had sought advice" about this problem from a working party of experts, who had been given the experiences of the Ministry. , • When the Commission had reached conclusions on this problem the Ministry would consider whether any regulatory action was called for here.
Another Forth Survey
THERE were cries of surprise from M.P.s when Mr. John Maclay, the Scottish Secretary, said in the Commons last week that it was necessary to have another survey of traffic likely to use the Forth Road Bridge . . . and added the words "particularly in relation to tolls."
• Mr. Tom Steele (Lab., Dunbarton West) asked why a survey was necessary —wasP there some doubt whether the bridge would be completed or not?
There was no doubt whatever about that, retorted Mr. Maclay. The point was that since the original surveys were taken, before building began, the pattern of traffic had changed..
NOISE REPORT SOON
THE report on noise—its causes. effects . and suppression—is expected by the Government iti the latter' part of this year. Stating this in a written reply in the Commons, the Prime Minister recalled that the committee carrying out the investigation had started its meetings in April, 1960.
5,000,000 FEWER PASSENGERS
FIVE million fewer passengers used Belfast Corporation transport in the, year ended January 7 last, although those who travelled paid £18,901 more, the Transport Committee has been informed.
MANCHESTER MERRYWEATHERS AERRYVVEATHER AND' SONS, 1V1 LTD., the Greenwich manufacturers of fire-fighting equipment, have opened an office at 175 Oxford Road, Manchester, 13, with Mr. N. G. Dixon in charge. The telephone number is Ardwick 2965.