BIRMINGHAM RETHINK ON CLEARWAYS
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Fr HE PLAN to declare 50 miles of radial roads in Birmingham as "clearways" is to be modified. The basic principle of a total rush-hours parking ban remains but the time during which the ban will be in operation is to be cut.
The alterations were agreed by a special meeting of the controlling Conservative group on Birmingham City Council and the amended scheme will now come before the July meeting of the Council. The original scheme was withdrawn unexpectedly for reconsideration when Labour members alleged Conservatives had bowed to pressure from traders.
Aid. Frank Griffin, the Conservative group leader, named four changes which had been agreed by the group and were now likely to come into force:
1. An assurance to people affected by the plan that it would be reviewed in a year and their objections taken into account.
2. Parking places will be made more easily available near the main shopping areas. (Special parking provision is, for example, to be provided behind shops in Moseley to meet the anxieties of shopkeepers.)
3. Slightly reduced periods during which the ban will apply at peak hours.
4. Broad Street, on which there was to have been a total ban at all times, will have unilateral parking in off-peak periods.