M.P.T.A. Advises on Road Planning
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RECENTLY the Municipal Passenger Transport Association submitted a memorandum to the Advisory Colmr mittee on the Design and Layout of Roads in Built-up Areas. Following this, a deputation of the Council of the Association appeared before that Committee, by invitation, to elaborate the points made.
It reiterated the view that transport experts should be consulted in the early stages of plannine° and that a recommendation that local town-planning committees should consult local transport operator's as early as possible was most important This point received a favourable reception.
The economy of road space of the p.s. vehicle per .person carried 'was emphasized, also the fact that much traffic congestion alleged to be due to public passenger vehicles of all kinds really arose from the indiscriminate parking of private cars at the footway.
Caution was advocated 'in recommendations regarding the introduction of ring roads near city centres, and the need was emphasized for 'roads through the central circle to carry certain public passenger serviees if traffic congestion and other inconveniences to the public were to be avoided. The, reservation to p.s: vehicles of their stopping places was similarly essential in the interests of the free flow of traffic and 'the safety of passengers boarding or alighting. In many places suitable sites for busloading stations were a necessity:
In the provision of housing estates. 'serious consideration should be . given to the mode of transport to and from the city, and in the provision of adequate roads , both to. and within them to meet the needs of the residents.