Birmingham Traders Fighting Ban
Page 39
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
QERIOUSLY perturbed" by the ban
16-) on loading and unloading at peak hours approved by Birmingham City Council, a committee representing 23 traders' organizations wishes to meet the chief constable and discuss it with him.
The Traders' Road Transport Association and Birmingham Chamber of Commerce are members of the committee, who claim that distribution costs will rise unless the ban is relaxed.
They wish the evening-peak ban on loading or unloading on the nearside to be from 5-6.30 p.m. instead of 4.306.30 p.m., and the Saturday prohibition from noon to 2 p.m. to be abolished.
Mr. G. A. Morgan, chairman of the committee, has said that they had received especially strong representations from dairymen, bakers, confectioners, and greengrocers.
NO PARKING ON PARADE
AS reported on page 773, London's Pink Zone traffic scheme is to continue after April, when the parking facilities on Horse Guards Parade will no longer be available and a new parking-meter plan comes into operation in Mayfair. This will be on April 4.
The Ministry of Transport stated on Tuesday that the experimental ban on loading and unloading in certain places will be continued for the present, although alternative measures may be introduced in the spring.
COMPULSORY WINDING-UP
THE compulsory winding-up of Crofton Road Transport, Ltd., Romany Rise, Orpington, Kent, was ordered by Mr. Justice Buckley in the Chancery Division, on Monday. It was issued on the petition of a judgment creditor for £272. The company were not represented.