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BRITISH engineers do not need to go abroad to learn how to build roads, said Mr. H. E. Aldington, M.Inst.C.E., Minst.T., chief engineer of the Ministry of transport, in addressing a luncheon held by the British Road Federation in London *last week. He criticized many American road junctions as being too complicated and distracting to drivers. Roundabouts and fly-over junctions were safer, he said.
Mr. Aldington „declared that the designed speed of roads should be 70 m.p.h., and announced that under-passes and over-passes would be built in London when labour and materials
were available. He. described the Government's 10-year plan, which• includes the construction of motor roads, as a great step forward in the development of a satisfactory national system of communications.
Lord Sandhurst, 0.B.E., who presided, said that the future of Britain's export trade depended largely on an efficient road system, and added that the public was not pushing the Treasury to push out the money.