Ministry Postpones Waiting Ban in London
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PRESSURE by operators' interests has caused the Ministry of Transport to defer for a short period—possibly two or three weeks— the prohibition on all vehicles stopping in the vicinity of 10 main road intersections in Central London. It was generally expected that the experiment would begin either in the last week of September or the first week in October.
The object of the postponement is to give the Metropolitan Traffic Liaison Committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association, Road Haulage Association and Passenger Vehicle Operators Association time to collect evidence of the effect of the ban on deliveries.
A census was taken last week among frontagers to be affected by the operation of the scheme. Mr. R. E. G. Brown, secretary of the London and Home Counties Division of the T.R.T.A., is now reviewing the information collected, but collation will take some time.
Last week the committee and representatives of trade and industrial bodies reviewed the subject. It was decided to ask the police to discuss some of the proposed restrictions. As The Commercial Motor commented on July 30, the police are concerned with keeping traffic moving and they would regard as a success any experiment that achieved that object, irrespective of its effect on deliveries.
Organizations represented at the meeting included the road panel of the Federation of 13 ritish Industries, National Dairymen's Society, London Chamber of Commerce, Institution of British Launderers, Mansion House Association on Transport, National Chamb& of Trade and , National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers.
LIST 6 RESULTS UP TO DATE DY Wednesday all tenders for vehicleLA only units in list 6 had been decided. Tenders for 373 units (8/2 vehicles), out of a total of 473 units (1,216 vehicles) offered, had been sold. Bids for 84 units (288 vehicles) had been rejected and no offers had been received for 16 units (56 vehicles).
The number of contract units for which tenders had been accepted had been reduced from 21 to 16, and the number of vehicles from 31 to 26. Three sales had been rescinded because the customers would not accept the successful tenderers. Two cases (two vehicles) were in abeyance. Tenders had been rejected for seven units (70 vehicles) and no bids had been received for four units (17 vehicles).
Of 31 property units (477 vehicles) offered, tenders for two units (15 vehicles) had been accepted and bids for 13 units (242 vehicles) rejected. No offers were made for seven units (76 vehicles) and nine cases (144 vehicles) were in abeyance. These results are well in keeping with those of previous lists containing property units.
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