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Police Chief Forecasts Six–mile Traffic Jams

19th September 1958
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NEXT year both the Lancaster and Preston by-passes will be open—yet the road linking them will not he completed until 1962. This was pointed out last week by the Roads Campaign Council, who described it as "an appalling indictment" of Ministry of Transport

policy. ,

They quoted the Chief Constable of Lancashire as saying that up to six. miles of congestion could be expected every day on each side of Broughton village because the connecting road would be almost impassable. Lancashire County Council's warnings had been ignored.

"In all future mOtorway construction, such situations must not be allowed to

arise," said the Council. Now that the Government are at last prepared to allocate some expenditure for road building, the money must be spent sensibly."

NORMAL USER AMENDED

A SKING for their three-vehicle A 4--). licence to be rnnewed at Preston, last week, T. Duckworth. Ltd.,. Burnley, agreed to amend the required normal user from "general goods, Great Britain " to "general goods, northern arid Midland counties." Mr. J. A. Dunkerley, for Duckworth's, said they agreed that the user originally sought was a little wide, so they were prepared to amend it. The company, he added, operated 11 vehicles on public A

and special A licence. •

Mr. 3. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, granted the application.

NEW ARTICULATED BUSES THIRTY 54-ft.-long articulated buses I have been supplied by MAN., Munich, Germany, to the city of Dortmund. Twelve of these are trolleybuses and the others are powered by 160-b.h.p. M-type oil engines. The oil-engined buses have ZF Rydromedia automatic gearboxes and the suspension on all vehicles is provided by rubber-mounted semi-elliptic springs. Bodywork is by Kassbohrer and the buses can accommodate 164 passengers, 45 of them seated.


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