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meter scheme, said Mr. R. J. Evans, of Manchester surveyor's department, at a meeting of the Manchester and District Centre of the Institute of Traffic Administration. In July, 1959, he said, the department had sent out a questionnaire to all those firms requiring loading space, informing them of the proposed meter system. They were asked for their opinions, and the amount of space they required: 59 per cent, replied, and many of their views were incorporated into the existing plan.
Mr. Evans said that the standard 40-ft. loading gap had been altered where EXPANDING
THE Hertfordshire area committee of the Traders Road Transport Association have decided that the name of the new extended area will he the Chiltern area. It will include Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, the northern part of Buckinghamshire and the northern part of Middlesex.
The extended Reading and District area is to be known as the Thames Valley area and will include Oxfordshire, Berkshire, most of Buckinghamshire and a strip of northern Hampshire.
WEST END BAN REVIEW
SCOTLAND YARD'S experimental ban on private cars and dual-purpose vehicles stopping to load or unload in the Mayfair and Maryletvone parking zones, except at parking places, is to be reviewed shortly and a decision taken on whether the scheme should be ended or made permanent.
This is disclosed by Mr. R. E. G. Brown, London Secretary of the Traders Road Transport Association, who want to know how members have been affected.
B.T.C. BUSES TAKE MORE TN the four weeks to December 4, last, . 1 traffic receipts on London Transport road passenger services were £4,382.000, compared with £4,285,000 in the same period of 1959.
On provincial and Scottish buses the receipts were £4,432,000, compared with .£4,206,000 in 1959.
A28 necessary. Furthermore, provision was made in the Act to allow gaps to be extended without complicated legislation.
Waiting in these areas was allowed for only 20 minutes by any one vehicle, unless consent had previously been obtained from a police officer in uniform to exceed that period. Mr. Evans expected that the police would be very co-operative in this respect On the other hand, if a bay was in use, drivers should not expect to be allowed to wait indefinitely nearby until it was cleared. Given 24 hours' notice, police would arrange for parking in nonparking areas whenever this was essential, he added.
HOOLIGANISM ON BUSES
BECAUSE disorderly conduct by passengers on buses at week-ends was becoming so prevalent, companies were finding it increasingly difficult to crew vehicles, said Mr. L Robey last week at Lanchester (County Durham) magistrates' court,
He was prosecuting in a case against a man who admitted being disorderly on a Northern General bus, using obscene language on the vehicle, and wilfully causing damage to the conductor's spectacles.
The passenger was fined a total of £15 with £7 7s. costs.