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Greater London Highway Development
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AS was announced in last week's issue of The Commercial Motor, Mr. C. H. Bressey, C.B., C.B.E., has been appointed by the Minister of Transport to prepare a road-development plan for the Greater London area, and on Friday last be made a statement concerning some of the problems in connection with his new task. He, in co-operation with Sir Edwin Lutyens, who is acting as consultant, is to make investigations into the many problems of road development in the London area, and these inveAlgations are to be completed in three years. Interim reports will, however, be presented to the Minister and will, if approved, be acted upon.
Mr. Bressey said that, broadly speaking, the Greater London arterial-road schemes are approaching completion. These roads, he said, are mostly outside the densely populated areas and are proving of great use. One could not, however, overlook the fact that the utility of these schemes is somewhat diminished because traffic is discharged into thoroughfares of distinctly inferior calibre.
The inadequacy of these older thoroughfares is daily becoming more obvious, and is demonstrated by the fact that during the past 10 years the number of vehicles registefed throughout the country has been more than doubled. The first task to be under taken is the collection and examination of all available data regarding schemes which had been proposed in the past, and either remain incomplete or have never been started.
At the same time, besides the data already available, more ample information was required as to traffic move:meats. in Greater London. Arrangements have been made for a traffic census to be taken on all Class I roads in the Greater London area next July or August, and on this occasion, Mr. Bressey said he had every reason to believe that arrangements would be made for a simultaneous census to be taken in Inner London by Scotland Yard.
The Class I traffic census is, said Mr. Bressey, perhaps the most comprehensive of any taken in the world. Next year it is to be made even more instructive by intensive investigation of the classes of traffic, rits`i origin and destination, so far as this is possible without creating undue obstruction.
Every scheme will be carefully considered, and the object of the investigation is to proceed on a plan based on the estimate of the probable needs of the next 20 or 30 years. .
Mr. Bressey said that the question of elevated roads would be considered.