AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

Minister's Plans for London Traffic: Waiting Restrictions

26th November 1954
Page 41
Page 41, 26th November 1954 — Minister's Plans for London Traffic: Waiting Restrictions
Close
Noticed an error?
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.

Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

PLANS to deal with London traffic were announced in the House of Commons last week by Mr. I. Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Transport. They included new road works and the extension to many more streets of restrictions on waiting.

So far as owners of goods vehicles are concerned, however, the incidence of the restrictions is to be reduced as a result of representations by the Metropolitan Traffic Liaison Committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association and the Road Haulage Association.

The Minister said that work on the Cromwell Road extension, to cost £3m., would start within the next two or three months. Early in the next financial year the recommencement of the construction of the DartfordPurfleet tunnel would be authorized. The cost would be £9m. He hoped also to approve soon the first instalment of a new road from Aldersgate to Moorgate, with a car park beneath it.

There would be various smaller road schemes, including the widening of Piccadilly near Swallow Street, which was due to start early in the New Year.

A stretch of the Great Cambridge Road from the North Circular Road to Bury Street, Edmonton, would also be widened.

Existing unilateral-waiting experiments in 17 streets in Westminster would be made permanent. The present maximum waiting period in unilateralwaiting streets would be extended from 20 to 30 minutes.

70 More Restricted Streets

. Early next month, a new series of unilateral and "no waiting" experiments would be introduced in some 70 more streets in inner and outer London. The experiment, postponed from September, of banning loading and unloading at five important road intersections in inner London, during certain periods of the day would be started soon.

Reports on the construction of underground car parks in Grosvenor, Cavendish and Finsbury Squares were being studied. The special problems of parking cars in the Royal parks were being investigated.

• London Transport was surveying space at or near railway stations for conversion into car parks.

The use of parking lights and the parking of unlit vehicles on the road in built-up areas at night would be legalized. Proposals to this effect, both as regards London and, subject to police consent, elsewhere, would shortly be circulated.

The question of staggering office hours in inner London had been referred to the Central Transport Consultative Committee. The chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee had been asked to undertake a complete review of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit on important roads in the London traffic area.

" These are the preliminary measures which I can at present announce for improving the flow of London traffic," said Mr. Boyd-Carpenter. " I do not claim that they will solve all its problems. Further measures are being worked out and will he announced when they are ready."

He did not think that it was either just or practicable to prohibit the entry of private cars into the central area, In allocating funds at his disposal for road works, he was giving full weight to the congestion in large cities and towns.

The Minister made his announcement after he had been under heavy fire in the House on the question of the inadequacy of the roads. In answer to a question, he said that it was proposed to authorize this year major road improvements and new construction of trunk roads. The cost would total about £8m.

NEW F.B.I. REGISTER

THE 1955 edition of the " Register of British Manufacturers" of the Federation of British Industries has been published by Kelly's Directories, Ltd., and Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., Dorset House, Stamford Street, London, S.E.I, at f2 2s.

The buyers' guide classifies over 6,800 companies under 5,000 headings for different products and services.


comments powered by Disqus