CARLISLE CONGESTION PROBLEM IS URGENT
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CARUSLE City Council last week amended a recommendation of its highways and streets committee that operators of abnormal traffic loads through the congested city would be asked to avoid the lunch hour as well as morning and teatime peak traffic times. The amendment altered the proposed times from 8.30-9.30 a.m. and 4.30-5.30 p.m. to 8-9 a.m. and 4.30-6.15 p.m., with the addition of 11.45 a.m.-1.15 p.m.
Last week Maj. R. A. B. Smith, the Road Haulage Association's roads consultant, visited Carlisle in connection with the traffic congestion in the city, through which runs the A6 main road to,, Scotland. Maj. Smith said he was satisfied that the proposed Carlisle by-pass was the first essential and should be constructed before the projected by-passing of Penrith, 18 miles south on the A6, scheduled for starting about 1%8.
After the City Council had defeated a suggestion to press for an earlier by-pass, an R.H.A. spokesman said the Association deplored this decision, in view of Maj. Smith's opinion that Carlisle's need was now more urgent.