Nottinghamshire's Road Improvements.
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In few parts of the country have -more comprehensive schemes of road improvement been carried out within recent years than in Nottinghamshire, and the county's highways are among the best to be found in England. Whilst much of this was due to the excellent work, which was carried out under the far-seeing direction of Mr. E. T. Hooley, a former county surveyor, the present official regime has witnessed even wider developments, the latest scheme, for which Parliamentary powers C2
have been acquired, being designed to solve problems in relation to traffic on Nottinghamshire sections of the Great North Road.
Authority has been granted to the county council to purchase an old toll bridge crossing the Trent at Guuthorpe, which has been hitherto entirely inadequate to meet modern-day requirements, -and a new Structure is now in course of erection. The scheme also involves the making of a new road to relieve the traffic from Nottingham, and this, connecting with the Great North Road, is also designed to relieve Newark and Retford of a large amount of traffic at present going through those towns.
The Ministry of Transport has manifested its appreciation of the public value of the proposals 11)y contributing 65 per cent. of the cost of the bridge and 50 per cent. of the cost of the roads. The cost in connection with the Gunthorpe Bridge scheme and the new road is estimated at 1120,000, and, having rligard to the utility of the work, the Parliamentary committee which has had the matter under consideration has accorded an extended period for the repayment of the loans.