COUNCIL DISAGREES WITH MINISTRY EXPERIMENT.
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Reporting on an inquiry by the Ministry of Transport, regarding an experiment in marking off traffic lanes on a length of Watling Street, between Stony Stratford and Fosters Booth, the highways committee of Northants County Council states that only threti traffic lanes can be provided. The committee is definitely of opinion that the marking of roads where only three lines of traffic can be accommodated is not conducive to safety, and proposes to inform the Ministry that it is unable to recommend the county council to undertake the experiment at the present time.
Coal Retailing from Lorries.
The Glasgow and District Retail Coal Dealers Association has made representations to the magistrates committee of Glasgow Corporation alleging unfair trading by lorries coming from outside districts and undercutting prices.
The magistrates, however, have no power to fix coal prices or to prevent " outside " traders from retailing coal on the streets ot the city, provided that they are registered in accordance with the by-laws Herts By-pass Scheme.
Herts County Council proposes to construct a by-pass road at Markyate Street to relieve the severe congestion in Markyate. The road, which is on Watling Street, is in places only 14 ft. wide and numerous accidents are alleged to have occurred. The through traffic, which was already heavy, has much increased since the zoological gardens have been opened at Wbipsnade.
Manchester's Traffic Problems.
Reporting on traffic problems, Manchester's chief constable states that he has, under the instructions of the traffic congestion committee, continued to make a dose survey of the traffic conditions generally throughout the city. Although there is room for hundreds of vehicles, he says, in the many garages which have been established by private enterprise, at considerable cost, in the central area of the city, private owners continue to park their cars for unreasonable periods in the public streets. In such circumstances, the police are obliged to continue to prosecute offenders.
• The rapid increase in the number of public service vehicles licensed to operate through the city, and the gradual conversion from trams to buses, have brought the usual problems in their wake. Close co-operation with the North-Western Traffic Commissioners has, however, done much to minimize what might have been an extremely difficult situation in respect of traffic congestion.
The necessity of the provision of a municipal bus station, or series of stations, is becoming more and more apparent, and he proposes to raise this question in the near future.
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