Mixed Reception for Road Expenditure
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THE increased expenditure on roads in the 1959-60 Civil Estimates has been greeted by the British Road Federation as a welcome trend. At the same time, the Federation's Aril Bulletin repeats earlier warnings that unless Treasury approval is given soon for a new road programme, authorizations for expenditure under the existing one must tail off.
It states: "The recent announcement by the Minister of Transport about levels of expenditure in the region of £60m. a year cannot alter the fact that the volume of authorizations left for the tWo remaining years of the programme is comparatively small. The urgent need is for a continuing expansion of road building activity, and the announcement of a new programme is imperative."
MORE BOTTLENECKS TO GO IN £618,000 SCHEMES
WORK is expected to start in the autumn on the construction of dual 24-ft. carriageways for a distance of 11 miles between Banstead and Burgh Heath, on the main London-Reigate road (A217). The scheme is estimated to cost 218,000. The improvements will include several bus laybys and redesigned road junctions.
Another project due to be started in the autumn is the 1-mile western section of the Southampton Inner Ring Road. It will run west of Above Bar Street from the junction of Civic Centre Road and Havelock Road, to join the eastern section of the Ring Road at its junction with High Street. The carriageway is to be 33 ft. wide and will have two footways. The cost is estimated at £400,000.