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Our new column in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago 18 Nov 1927
The new Prince of Wales Bridge opened over the River Trent at Gunthorpe, midway between Nottingham and Newark. This would enable vehicles coming from the South via Leicester to use the Fosse Way and cross the river at Gunthorpe, joining the NottinghamBawtry road and offering a direct route to Doncaster and bypassing Loughborough and Mansfield.
50 years ago 14 Nov 1952
The Metropolitan licensing Authority, Brig RIO Dowse, endorsed an application from Northern Roadways for backings for its services from Glasgow and Edinburgh to London. Dowse recognised that there was a need for more road services from Glasgow to Edinburgh and London. However, he had reduced the duplication authorised by the Scottish licensing Authority because additional facilities ought to be provided by existing operators. While a small degree of competition was desirable, some reward for Northern Roadways was justified.
25 years ago 18 Nov 1977 The British Roads Federation accused the government of playing off public transport and the rail unions against the roads programme. BRF chief economist Shaun Leslie reported that subsidies had quadrupled in five years at a time of constraints on the roads programme, despite the fact that roads carry 8o% of the country's traffic. "The government acts as if public transport support somehow reduces the need for road investment," he warned.