Restrictions on tondon Traffic Inevitable
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I-1 A SPECIAL licence for the urban
vehicle user was one suggestion for dealing with metropolitan congestion, advanced by Mr. Roger Gresham Cooke, M.P., at the annual dinner of the Institute of Traffic Administration's London centre last Friday.
Road developments were already 25 years out of date, he said, and the country moved from one transport crisis to another, with a new Road Traffic Bill at frequent intervals. The problem could be met by spending a great deal of money, but politicians were well aware that they held the balance between the conflicting demands on the country's finances. Fle saw no hope of squeezing future traffic into London without some form of restriction.
Mr. Cooke emphasized the urgent need to promote road safety and called for more mobile police patrols, an examination of accident proneness and higher standards of driving training.
So far as the railways were concerned, he looked for the day when trains with independent suspension and pneumatic tyres could meet road competition effectively at speeds of up to 150 m.p.h.
Lord Merrivale of Walkifampton. president of the Institute, said that problems being studied. by the Institute included traffic congestion and human relations in industry.