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Municipal Haulage Rates Raised in Northants.
Northants Highways Committee has accepted quotations for haulage as follow
Piece-work at prices ranging from Is. 3d. to 3s. 6d. per ton, according to distance ; ton-mileage basis at maxiMum rates of 1s. 10d. per ton for a onemile haul, up to 8s. 6d. per ton for a 30-mile haul, from stations, wharves, quarries, or depots to the roads ; day work for 1-ton tipping lorries at prices not exceeding 3s, ed. per hour, for 30cwt.-2-ton lorries at rates not exceeding 4s. per hour, and for 5-6-ton steam or petrol lorries, at charges not exceeding 7s. 6d. per hour.
The tendered prices show an litcrease of approximately id. per ton on piecework and ton-mileage rates, and 3d. to 6d, per hour on'day-work rates, as compared with prices that have been paid during the past financial year.
Even these small increases are gratifying in view of our efforts to establish municipal haulage rates on a sound basis.
Haulage Rates for Wolverhampton. The highways committee of Wolverhampton Corporation has fixed the following rates to be paid to contractors for haulage work : —Motors not exceeding 1 ton, 3s. 6d. per hour, and vehicles over l ton and not exceeding 2 tons, 4s. per hour.
Motorbuses for Dover?
On Tuesday last the tramways committee of Dover Corporation decided to recommend the town council to operate the tramways until 1936, when the loans will be repaid. It is proposed to seek powers to run motorbuses after that date. Waterloo Bridge: Special Traffic Plans.
The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee has framed a traffic arrangement to be followed during the reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge, London. Assuming that the temporary bridge is kept open for traffic, the suggestion is that it should be used only by south-hound traffic, and that north-bound vehicles should proceed by Westminster Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, or Lambeth Bridge. It is further suggested that one-way traffic working should be introduced in Savoy Street, Norfolk Street, and Approach Road.
The reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge is computed to take five years to complete. The suggestion for the traffic arrangementis now being ccnsidered in association with the local authorities concerned.