London Areas Barred to Coaches
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IMPORTANT new Regulations are being prepared under the London Traffic Act, 1924, with the ostensible object of relieving traffic congestion in Central London. These will have the general effect of restricting the operation of certain classes of publicservice vehicle within the areas which are defined in
the accompanying map. , The Regulations will apply to all public-service vehicles as defined in the Road Traffic Act, 1930, other than contract carriages or stage carriages plying for hire by short stages as defined in that Act. In other words, they will• affect vehicles commonly known as motor coaches, as distinct from the short-stage motorbus, but they will not apply in cases where vehicles are hired as a whole or are used on special occasions for the conveyance of private parties.
The Draft of the proposals prescribes two areas, a smaller one, which will-be that totally barred during week-days to these vehicles, and a larger area into which vehicles will be prohibited from entering between the hours of 3 a.m. and 7 p.m., on any week-day except Saturday, or between 3 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Saturday.
It will thus be seen that access to any part of the larger area, with the exception of the smaller central area, is permissible in the evening after 7 p.m. and throughout the night up to 3 a.m., whilst the restrictions are removed over the whole area from 3 p.m. on Saturday until 3 a.m. on Monday morning. The Regulations will also provide for the vehicles affected by them to have access by prescribed routes to certain existing motor-coach stations and motorbus garages situated inside, but close to the fringe of, the larger area to which we have referred. The Minister wishes it to be understood, however, that as regards the boundary of this area it may be necessary at some future date to apply the prohibition to a larger district.
In considering the following lists of streets encompassing the inner and outer areas, it must be remembered that the vehicles in question may traverse these streets so long as they do not penetrate the areas defined, except by the special prescribed routes.
The smaller area is enclosed by the following thoroughfares :—High Holborn from Kingsway, New Oxford Street, Oxford Street, New Bond Street, Old Bond Street, Piccadilly from Old Bond Street to Hyde Park Corner, Grosvenor Place, Grosvenor Gardens, Victoria Street, Broad Sanctuary, Parliament Square, Bridge Street, Victoria Embankment, Approach Road, Norfolk Street, Aldwych East, Kingsway.
As regards the larger area, this is confined by the following streets :—Euston Road, MaryIebone Road, Edgware Road, Marble Arch, Park Lane, Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, Hyde Park Corner, Grosvenor Place, Grosvenor Gardens, Buckingham Palace Road, Ecclestou Bridge, Belgrave Road, Gillingham Street, Vauxhall Bridge Road, Vauxhall Bridge, Albert Embankment, Lambeth Road, St. George's Circus, Borough Road, Borough High Street, Trinity Street, Great Dover Street, Old Kent Road, Tower Bridge Road, Tower Bridge, Tower Bridge Approach, Mansell Street, Royal Mint Street, Leman Street, Commercial Street, Great Eastern Street, Old Street, City Road, Pentonville Road.