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Bigger Road Grants Vital to Safety

20th March 1953, Page 38
20th March 1953
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" MORE expenditure on road construction, maintenance a n d improvement is vital to the interests of road safety, and the conference calls upon the Government to take more effective action to deal with this most urgent problem."

This statement is made in a list of proposals for priority treatment, in connection with the road-safety campaign, drawn up by 50 national bodies .concerned with the problem. A deputation to be headed by Lord Llewellin, president of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, will present the plan to the Minister of Transport.

The proposals were agreed at a conference, last week, attended by delegates from the bodies. It was recommended that certain matters might be considered for inclusion in the Government's proposed Road Traffic Bill.

The plan calls for more intensive research into questions such as vehicle and street lighting, contends that pedestrians should be made subject to greater discipline, and that dogs on roads should be properly controlled. The Highway Code should be distributed to commercial-vehicle drivers through their employers, it states.

• BIG TRANSPORT REVIEW DELEGATES from Spain and Yugoslavia were due to attend a meeting of the European Transport Conference in Paris on Wednesday. Senior officials from different countries and representatives of international transport bodies are to examine the whole problem of road, rail and waterway transport.

Two sessions will probably be held. One will be before Easter, at which proposals will be put forward. At a second session after Easter, definite measures will be considered.

"ABANDON DUNDEE TRAMS" A REPORT on the city's transport Pt system by Col. R. McCreary met with criticism at last week's meeting of Dundee Transport Committee. The report urged the abandonment of trams over the next five years, and included a recommendation to test one-manoperated buses as soon as possible.

Bailie D. F. Paterson thought that the report should be shelved until at least 1956. A special meeting is, however, to be held to consider it.

LEYLAND LIMON ORDER AN order for vehicles valued at

£100,000 has been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd., from the Middle East. Thirtv-nine oilers specially equipped for constructional work are required, consisting of 20 Comet 90 tippers with steel bodies, 15 Super Hippo six-wheelers with steel bodies, and four Super Hippo tractors..

DENATIONALIZATION PLEA A RESOLUTION that it would be in the best interests of the country for road haulage to be restored to private enterprise was passed by the Ulster Unionist Party at its recent conference. limit was not considerable and it would not be necessary to vary the unit charge of the levy.

Replying to Lord Lucas, he said the choice lay between possibly carrying the levy on for a little longer—no one could say how long, but he thought not for very long—and altering the amount. If, however, the jimit were raised to 2 tons, an increase in the charge would be unavoidable.

Lord Silkin moved an amendment to increase the exemption to vehicles of 2 tons. It seemed to the Opposition, he said, that to base exemption on 2 tons unladen weight would have the effect of relieving the small man.

Lord Swinton replied that they would then be getting out of the range of the delivery van and into the sphere of the haulage vehicle. The levy fund would lose E700,000 if the limit were placed at 2 tons and the charge would have to be increased to something like 16s. 6d. per quarter-ton. The amendment was not proceeded with.


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