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2nd July 1937, Page 68
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Discuss Highway Safety.

ALIVELY discussion followed the paper read by Mr. R. H. Brown, county surveyor of Warwickshire, at the annual conference of the Institution of Municipal and County Engineers, at Bournemouth, Last week.

Mr. Brown urged that road engineers must face the facts. It was no use their asserting that they were making good roads and that accidents should not happen: not only good roads, but safe roads, must be produced.

He suggested that the cost of reconstructing Great Britain's trunk roads would be in the region of £430,000,000. This figure was not, however, so alarming when it was borne in mind that road users contributed £71,000,000 annually. Mr. Lyddon said that, in this country, there was a larger road mileage per square mile than in any other part of the world.

That, at the present rate of increase, traffic would he six to eight times the , present volume in 20 years' time, was the assertion of Mr. Bennett, county surveyor of Oxfordshire. A proportionate increase in accidents would, he said, produce a dangerous situation. He suggested that there need be no undue concern at the suggested cost of rebuilding our trunk roads; the consequent decrease in accidents would

alone make it well worth while. . Mr. Hepworth said that the whole question of road safety depended upon the segregation of traffic.


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