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Minister Approves Tyne Tunnel Plans
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DROPOSALS—by the County Councils 1 of Durham and Northumberland— for the construction of a tunnel between Jarrow and Howdon under the river Tyne have been approved by the Minister of Transport. The tunnel and its approaches will connect the A184 Gateshead-Sunderland trunk road and the A1058 Newcastle-Tynemouth road.
The tunnel was previously authorized by Parliament in the Tyne Tunnel Acts of 1946 and 1956 but, as a result of further consideration, new plans have been prepared which will enable the tunnel to be driven through bed-rock below the river and provide accommodation for toll booths in the approaches.
It is hoped to start construction work towards the end of 1960 and it is estimated that work will be completed in five or six years. The project is estimated to cost about £121m.
RAIL FACILITIES USELESS THEYorkshire Deputy , Licensing Authority, Mr. J. H. A. Randolph, was told at Leeds last week that passenger train facilities offered by British Railways at Bradford were of no use for getting small parcels to Ringway Airport for shipment to the Continent.
Unless parcels were ready by 3 p.m. they missed the train and were not at the airport that day. Charges were excessive and customers had to pay for transport to the railway station and make arrangements at Manchester for the parcels to be collected from the station and delivered to the airport.
He was heating an application by Sharp and Griffiths, Ltd., Hollins Mill Garage, Baildon, to add a condition to their B licence to enable their 1-ton van to carry air freight to Ringway Airport. Granting the application, Mr. J. H. A. Randolph remarked that it was in the public interest that it should be granted as the parcels were obviously urgent. There was an objection by British Railways.
BUSINESS EXPRESS SERVICES
NEW inter-city express . services, between Newcastle upon Tyne, Durham, South Shields and Sunderland, are to be operated by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd. The services will reduce running time by up to 25 per cent.
Initially, the new fast services will in operated at hourly intervals but, if public demand warrants it, headways will he reduced to 30 min. Normal fare scales will be charged.
USELESS—BUT PUBLIC ROAD A LTHOUGli a Sheffield street in CA which lorry driver, John Henry Hancock of St. Philip's Road, Sheffield, parked his vehicle, was described In Sheffield last week as " utterly useless and derelict," the prosecution said nevertheless it was a public thoroughfare.
He was summoned for parking without lights in Robertshaw Street—which is in a demolition and reconstruction area— but was conditionally discharged.