Lord Mayor Wants £120m. for Roads
11th December 1959, Page 49
11th December 1959
Page 49
Page 49, 11th December 1959
— Lord Mayor Wants £120m. for Roads
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Politics, Hospitality / Recreation
I ONDON'S programme of major road works was denounced as utterly inadequate by Sir Edmund Stockdale. Lord Mayor of London, on Monday. He understood that £17m_ was to be spent between 1960-65 on London road works, yet Birmingham, which was only a third of the size of the County of London, proposed to devote £41m. to roads in the next seven years. By that token London should spend £120m. in the same period.
Sir Edmund declared that at least £200m. should be spent next year on roads in Britain.
Dealing with traffic congestion in Central London, he suggested, among other things, that waiting for any purpose should be banned on main roads and their approaches, at least during peak periods.