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Ross By-pass Now Open to Traffic

9th September 1960
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THE Ross by-pass, a one-and-a-half

mile-long road on the north-west side of Ross-on-Wye which links the existing roads between South Wales and the Midlands, was opened at the week-end. The eastern end will be connected with the Ross motorway when it is opened later in the year.

The northern carriageway of the Hanger Lane underpass on Western Avenue, London, was opened last week. The two northern slip roads also came into use. It is expected that the southern road will be opened early next month.

MOTORWAY WORK STARTS

WORK started last week on the aim. VV section of the Birmingham-Preston motorway to by-pass the Stafford bottleneck, in all about five miles long. Twin 36-ft.-wide carriageways separated by a 13-ft. central reservation, with 10-ft.-wide hard shoulders, will be laid down. The hard shoulders will be on the same foundation as the carriageways, so that heavy lorries will not sink through them as happened on earlier hard shoulders on MI.

WORK TO START ON THAMES TUNNEL

THE Ministry of Transport is to invite tenders for the completion of the £11.000,000 Dartford Purfleet tunnel under the River Thames, expected to be completed in 1962. Work is already in progress on the northern approaches to the tunnel and a £758,755 contract has been awarded for the construction of the southern approach road,

"BUILD MORE MOTORWAYS" CALL

MOTORWAYS, not dual-carriageway all-purpose roads, should he built whenever any trunk roads are improved. The motorway is by far the most efficient method for moving large volumes of vehicles, the British Road Federation stated this week.

MOVE TO END A4 BOTTLENECK

THE Minister of Housing, Mr. Henry Brooke, has suggested to Slough (Buckinghamshire) Borough Council that the A4, which at present runs through the congested High Street of the town, should he diverted for through traffie, thus by-passing the town.