ONE-WAY TRUNK ROADS?
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COOD communications and good transkJ port were the life-blood of industry today. Therefore, the recent cut in the road programme was ludicrous in regard to modern conditions and a disregard of modem requirements which was an unbelievable indication of wrong priorities. This was said in London on Tuesday by Lord Chesham, a former Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, in a paper on short-term ways of improving road safety which he gave to the Institute of Traffic Administration. Lord Chesham was speaking in a private capacity.
He instanced engineering, education and enforcement as being vital in this context, saying that he thought enforcement was the key to the whole situation.
Lord Chesham advocated much more extensive use of one-way systems and the use of physical barriers to prevent all sections of road users from contravening regulations. The plain fact was that we had to make best use of the road system now available, which we were not yet doing.
Why, he asked, should we not think in terms of one-way routes for 15, 50 or even 500 miles? Why not reserve lanes on motorways for commercial vehicles, and special one-way trunk routes for them? Longer mileages would result, he realized, but he preferred dead mileage to dead people.