How Road Funds are Dispersed
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D1TRING the year ended March 31, 1938, the Road Fund contributed £19,000,000 towards highway expenditure, nearly half for major-road improvements and new construction, the rest for maintenance work and minor improvements. The commitments of the Fund, however, by the end of the year were estimated at nearly .£55,000,000, practically all for improvements and new construction. In addition, works of major improvement and new construction on trunk roads, estimated at £4,500,000, were in hand on April 1, 1937, and local authorities agreed during the year to execute for the Minister further schemes amounting to approximately
£5,000,000, .
The initial steps taken by the Ministry to modernize the '4,500 miles of trunk roads transferred to it at the beginning of the year are _recorded. The expenses on minor improvements and maintenance are estimated at £2,200,000, and on major improve meats and new construction at £1,327,000. When the Ministry took over, the major schemes in hand numbered 305; by the end of the year 338 new ones had been approved, the expenditure being estimated at £7,500,000.
With regard to the Five-year Plan, schemes to the value of nearly £130,000,000 had been submitted by highway authorities up to the end of the year. Works approved in principle were estimated to cost about £90,000,000, of which the Road Fund's contribution will be nearly £52,000,000.
The length of tramway track abandoned during the year was about 158 miles, 38 of this in London.
The Government has undertaken to allocate from, the Road Fund £0,000,000 for the reconstruction of Class 1 roads in the Crofter Counties of Scotland.
Traffic-light installations in London now number 909.