Call for Better Roads in the West Country
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ROADS were the subject of speeches by three people at the annual dinner of the North Devon sub-area of the Road Haulage Association, held in Barnstaple last Friday. Both Mr. P. B. Browne, M.P., and Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, M.P., called for improvements. So did a national vice-chairman of the R.H.A., Mr. D. 0. Good.
Haulage, said Mr. Good, must be almost the only industry that had never had the honour—if, indeed, it was an honour—of having a White Paper devoted to its existence. If it wanted one, it seemed haulage would have to write its own.
There were some things that could be said in such a publication. For one
thing, it should certainly include plans for better communications, especially in the West Country. There, Most of the roads seemed designed to baffle the lorry driver rather than to help him in carrying out his job,
If the railways were to have all the money promised to them, was there not an equally strong case for spending far more than at present for rebuilding the road system?
lf the nationalized docks were now to be formed into a separate board under the direct supervision of the Minister of Transport, could he not do something about seeing that those docks were modernized so as to be more suitable for the enormous increase in road traffic?