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THE hump-backed Methley Bridge, 1 which takes the Leeds-Pontefract road over the River Calder in the West Riding, is to be rebuilt with wider approaches at. a.' cost of £145,000. At present the bridge is only 21 ft. wide, but when the scheme is completed it will be 42 ft. wide, with provision for further widening later.
In Monmouthshire, constructional work will start shortly on a £240,000 scheme to improve the London-Fishguard trunk road between Tabernacle Chapel, Llanvaches, and the Llanfair Discoed Arch, on the west end of the Caerwent By-pass.
This will remove a bottleneck.
Exeter Corporation are to widen Cowick Street, Exeter, at a cost of £111,300. This street is part of the London-Penzance road. The project will fit in with a plan to provide a new bridge over the River Exe some time in the future.
LOW PRIORITY FOR LEEDSSHEFFIELD MOTORWAY REPLYING to Sir Peter-Roberts, M.P. ' for Heeley, Sheffield, the Minister of Transport, Mr. Harold Watkinson, held out little hope for an early start on the proposed Leeds-Sheffield motorway.
The provisional line of the road had, he said, been safeguarded in the county development plan. The full national value of the proposed road could not be realized until the northern section of the London-Yorkshire Motorway had been built and competing claims of other projects designed to relieve congestion in industrial areas had been considered.
Five other major schemeswere clue for completion before 'construction effort could be diverted to more local plans. They were the modernization of the Great North Road, the Midlands-South Wales link, the London.-BirminghamPreston . road, the London-Bristol and South Wales route and the LondonChannel ports road improVement.
"LIGHT THE MOTORWAYS AND LEAD THE WORLD DRITAIN has an opportunity to lead
the world in the lighting of motorways, and the chance should.not be missed, according to Mr. -W. Robinson. the Electrical Development Association's lighting officer. In London last week he said one of the main functions of motorway lighting would be to encourage drivers to use the motorways freely after dark.
Experiments were now being made, and it was estimated that lighting would add £4,000 to the £250,000 cost of a mile of new road. Instead of eliminating headlights, it was visualized that the lighting would extend their range and Minimize the glare problem from oncoming vehicles.