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Parking Lights to be Legal

19th June 1953, Page 28
19th June 1953
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Page 28, 19th June 1953 — Parking Lights to be Legal
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By Our Parliamentary Correspondent

THERE is to be an early re-examina:. tion of the whole question of parking lamps. The pledge was given in the House of Commons, last Friday, when, on the report stage of the Road Transport Lighting (Amendment) Bill, Mr. Powell (Cons:) moved an amendment, which was approved, to make legal the use of parking lights on vehicles standing within 100 yd. of a street lamp, or on road verges, or in places specially set aside for the purpose.

The amendment, he said, would make it possible for the Minister to legalize parking lights by regulation. Their use was widespread and although it was illegal, the police connived at it.

Mr. Gurney Braithwaite, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport said that the Minister was not yet able to say whether or not he intended to legalize the use of parking lamps or to argue the merits of the case in detail. Discussions must be held with those concerned, especially with the Horne Secretary in conjunction with the police authorities.

"Without, at this stage, giving any undertaking, the Minister does not wish to resist the grant of the power proposed in the amendment. He recognizes that, in some circumstances and subject to a number of conditions, the use of parking lamps might prove to be a useful contribution to road safety," continued Mr. Braithwaite.

The possibility of legalizing their use had been under examination for a good many years, and opinion had not been unfavourable, subject to safeguards which would cover such matters as the limitation of the classes of vehicle to which the relaxation might apply.

" The Minister," said Mr. Braithwaite, "is glad to promise, if the House grants this power, a very early and thorough re-examination of the whole question of parking lamps, but until this is done he cannot undertake to state what use, if any, he would make of such additional machinery, except that elsewhere than possibly grass verges, he would not use the power to permit an extension of parking vehicles unlit,"

The Bill received a third reading.

BOARD MEET COMMISSION

1k MEETING of the Road Haulage ra Disposal Board with the British Transport Commission took place last Friday. No statement was issued, but it h understood that the general lines oi". disposal were discussed.

SPEED LIMIT: NEW VISIT

A DEPUTATION from the leading ti industrial and road transport organizations visited the Minister of Transport last week, and again pressed the case for raising the 20 m.p.h. limit to 30 m.p.h.


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