NO GOODS METERS FOR BRISTOL?
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BRISTOL CORPORATION is to be asked by its highways committee to approve a recommendation that provision should be made for goods vehicles to wait prior to loading or unloading in the dock and warehouse area. Although the matter has thus yet to be decided in full council, the committee decision represents a considerable success for the Traders Road Transport Association. whose national secretary, Mr. H. R. Featherstone, said this week: "We are delighted that the committee have recognized the needs of goods vehicles for this faeility ".
A Ministry inspector had recommended, after a public inquiry, that special facilities for commercial vehicles would be necessary in the area and at one stage Bristol was considering implementing this by introducing. chargeable parking meters to regulate waiting.
The T.R.T.A. argued . that such a course would be wrong in principle and that, providing goods vehicles were waiting for a reasonable length of time prior to loading, they should be allowed to do so without charge. This has now been accepted by Bristol's highways committee.
As reported last week, the Ministry of Transport is understood to be considering the principles involved in chargeable meters for waiting goods vehicles, with special reference at present to London.