No Loading Bans in City Yet
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DANS on loading and unloading during
peak hours in the city centre are the only section of Nottingham's " rainbow " parking scheme to be held hack. After the watch committee approved the scheme it was stated that the loading and unloading proposals would be the subject of a -Ministry of Transport inquiry.
This concession is considered to be a " first-round " victory for the Traders' Read Transport Association, Road Haulage Association and the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, all of Whom lodged objections to the "brown scheme."
This would have created a zone in Nottingham's busiest commercial area where loading and unloading would have been prohibited from 8.20-9.10 a.m. and 5.15-6.5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
At a meeting to discuss this idea, held in March, Ald. W. E. Dyer, for the T.R.T.A., stressed that tremendous difficulties would result for vehicle operators and traders if normal delivery times were suddenly banned.
Announcing a standstill on the " brown " zone plan, Cfir. Percy Holland, chairman of the watch committee, said that it had been a unanimous decision in view of the objections. The rest of the scheme would be put before the city council as soon as possible.
TRACK TESTS FOR ROAD-RAILER
THE experimental road-rail vehicle which has been produced for British Railways by the Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., has succesfully completed trials on the road. It is to commence rail tests with the Eastern Region, between Braintree and Bishop's Stortford, this week, primarily to prove the braking system. When tests are completed the vehicle has to receive the approval of the Ministry of Transport as the next step towards quantity production.
NEW LICENSING RULES
MEW draft Goods Vehicles (Licences
and Prohibitions) Regulations have been prepared by the Ministry of Transport. They are necessary because of the consolidation of road haulage licensing law by the Road Traffic Act, 1960. The new regulations consolidate those of 1952, but make no important changes.