Ashford By-pass to be Open in July
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A SHFORD by-pass, on the LondonPA Dover Trunk Road (A20), will be officially opened on July 19 by the Minister of Transport. Its completion will be in time to carry the peak of the summer holiday traffic. The narrow, winding streets of Ashford town have been a bottleneck on the Dover road for many years.
Skirting the north side of Ashford, the by-pass is 2-1miles long and has twin carriageways, each 24 ft. wide, separated by a central strip of varyint,,
width. There is a new roundabout at each end. A fly-over bridge carries the main Ashford-Canterbury road (A28) over the by-pass. Other bridges carry the by-pass over Willesborough Lees Road, the River Stour, the Ashford Canterbury railway line and Warren Lane.
Ashford by-pass is a pre-war scheme on which work was begun in 1919.
ST. HELENS PROFIT
AA NET profit of £59,598 was made by St. Helens Transport Department in the year ended March 31. Trolleybuses cost £145,543 to run at 26.292d. per mile, and earned £186,501. Motorbuses earned £573,016 and cost £515,868 to run, at a rate of 25.56Id. per mile.
Loan charges amounted to £38,508, and £19,323 was transferred to reserves. Fares were not increased at the time of the Suez crisis.
FRONT ENTRANCES SPECIFIED
THE first 20 of 69 double-deck bodies to be built by H. V. Burlingham, Ltd., on Leyland TD3/4 chassis for Ribble Motor Services. Ltd., will feature front entrances. They will seat 72 passengers and have compressed-airoperated sliding doors. If the first complete body proves satiVactory, the remaining 49vehicles will also have front entrances.