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Road Transport Topics By OUT Special in • Parliamentary Correspondent
Page 77
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WAGES NOT FIXED BY PARLIAMENT.
THE Minister of Labour was asked by Mr. Grant-Ferris whether he would take steps to ensure that bus drivers and conductors were paid for an interval period between one bus journey and another, in cases where such spread-over period was away from their home depot.
Mr. E. Brown replied that remuneration of drivers and conductors was a matter for negotiation and settlement between the employers and the employees or their respective organizations.
TACKLING PROBLEMS FROM ALL ANGLES.
ON the subject of road accidents the Minister stated in the House of Commons that be was concentrating on steady and continuous attack upon the problem from every known angle, rather than pinning his hopes to the discovery of some novel panacea.
He added that he was hoping to have shortly a report from an advisory committee dealing with the whole question of pedestrian traffic.
Mr. Leach suggested that it might be better to limit the power of engines and their speed capacity.
Mr. Groves called attention to the accidents within the county borough of West Ham, and mentioned that schemes of road improvement, sanctioned and started years ago, were still incomplete, causing danger to the public. Mr. Burgin promised to communicate with the highway authority.
It was stated that during 1937, 42 persons were killed and 767 injured in 650 road accidents on the main roads between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The corresponding figures for the railways between those two cities were 46 killed and i196 injured in 40 accidents.
COMPULSORY INSURANCE.
1-1-1E recommendations of the recent 1 Committee on ccimpulsory insurance are at present under consideration by the Government Departments concerned.
STATEMENT TO BE MADE ON THE SEVERN BRIDGE PROJECT.
nID the Minister intend, asked Mr. A.
Jenkins, to make a statement, in addition to the replies he had given to the two deputations he had received from the two groups for and against the construction of a bridge over the Severn River?
Mr. Burgin replied in the affirmative, He was at present considering the representations made to him by the promoters and opponents of the proposed Severn Bridge. INTOXICATION AND FATAL ACCIDENTS.
A 'MENTION was called by Captain Arthur Evans to the light sentences passed on drivers convicted of drunkenness and of causing the death of other road users, and he asked whether the Home Secretary could state the number of prosecutions instituted in connection with them during 1937.
Sir Samuel Hoare said there was no possibility of relating figures of such offences by motorists with figures of fatalities. There were many prosecutions where no fatality had occurred, and many fatalities where no prosecution followed, either beco use no ground existed for a criminal charge or because the driver suspected of an offence had been killed.
The returns for 1937 were not yet complete, but a preliminary examination showed that, during the year, there were 15 convictions of manslaughter resulting in 13 sentences to penal servitude or imprisonment.
Mr. Leach suggested that all motorists should , be compulsory teetotallers.
.Sir S. Hoare on another occasion stated' that he had little information about the system of week-end imprisonment for traffic offences operating in America, but that he would try to obtain more complete particulars.