REMARKABLE ROAD TRAFFIC.
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THE Lancashire County Sorveyor took a census or traffic on the Blackpool-Preston road, during, Blackpool carnival, week. -The following table gives only one-way. traffic—into Blackpool—at the points: named, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m., dirrinrihe carnival,. and .includes commercial motors, motor chars-a-banes, motorcars, motorcycles, and other vehieles (excluding bicycles) 't These figures work out at an average of over 7,000 vehicles per day, the total being chiefly made up of motor vehicles. The biggest daily totals of any particular type of vehicle on the' road were as follow :—On Saturday, through Lea-936
motor coaches, 4,014 motorcars, 3,495 motorcycles. 'Through Poulion 219 motor coaches, 814 motorcars, 508 motorcycles. On Thursday of carnival week the number Of motor chars-d-haues that passed through Lea was 927—only nine fewer than on Saturday.
It Ts computed that. with. the vehicles that travelled . to Blackpool. between 10 p.m. and 8 -a.m., when the census was not in operation, and those which re. turned from the seaside during the night, the number of vehicles whichpassed over
• the road during the. period of the carnival was round about 120;000 at a fair estimate. . • •
. The figures are of interest as indimt" ing the reliance which is----placed upon the motor, vehicle for conveying large .numbers of people to .popular and portent 'flint-tibias.