36-ft. Bus Gets Go-Ahead
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From Our Parliamentary Correspondent
THE Government has at last given the "go-ahead" to the 36-ft. bus. The Minister of Transport announced last week that new regulations increasing the permitted maximum length arid width of public service vehicles to 36 ft. and 8 ft. 2i in. would be laid before Parliament shortly. These are the dimensions laid down in the 1949 United Nations Convention on Road Traffic.
Mr. IVIarples added that the Traffic Commissioners would have power to limit the use of the larger buses for regular services on particular routes. And he warned that if experience showed that the presence of contract and foreign coaches of this size in central London caused great traffic difficulty it might prove necessary to place restrictions on them in that area. However, no restrictions would be introduced at present.