Provincial Cities Throttling Too
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ABOOKLET, "New Ways," published last week by the Roads Campaign Council, points out that Chester, Halifax and Leeds, like London, are slowly throttling themselves with road traffic.
Coloured maps show the ring roads, widenings, and other improvements suggested by these boroughs for the relief of their road congestion. "These plans have been in the Ministry of Transport's hands for years," says4the book. "All that is needed is the authority to put the work in hand and financial support where this is necessary and fair."
The booklet is obtainable from the R.C.C. at 15 Dartmouth Street, London, S.W.!.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS
REPORTING on the progress of road construction from January—June this year, the British Road Federation state that 39 road building projects, costing over £100,000 each, were started during the period.
This compares with the previous highest total of 30 for the same period last year, but the overall cost of the new schemes (£21,714,500) is less than the corresponding total for last year (£37,036,000) which included £27,225,000 for the first sections of the LondonBirmingham motorway and the Ross Spur motorway,
£12.8m. ROAD WORKS IN WEST RIDING
THE cost of trunk road improvements under construction in the West Riding totalled £7,683,730, and further schemes amounting to £5.171,235, were expected soon to be under construction, said the deputy county engineer and surveyor. Mr. G. T. Carpenter, at the West Riding Urban District Council Association conference at Scarborough last week. He added that the Doncaster by-pass scheme, which was due to be completed on June I, 1961, would cost £4,768,434.