Delivery Vehicles and Obstruction cOMPLAINTS about the obstruction
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of narrow streets by delivery vehicles waiting alongside parked vehicles are to be brought to the attention of the Home Secretary.
Promising this in the Upper House last week, Lord Chesham, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, said he hoped the police would read what had been said "and we shall get some further action in the matter ".
It was difficult to say when total obstruction was unreasonable, explained Lord Chesham, but he would have thought that the practice complained of was ".a very undesirable one".
Furthermore, he added, it was one which was spreading, with a very unfortunate tendency by some drivers of" delivery vehicles and taxis not to bother to pull into the kerb even where there was room.
Mudguard Improvements THE Minister of Transport is considering whether there is any way in which to improve the present requirements relating to mudguards on lorries. "The provision of wings or other similar fittings to catch, so far as practicable, mud or water
water thrown up by the rotation of the wheels is already a statutory requirement for most vehicles ", he pointed out in the Commons last week. "The difficulty of providing for different types of lorries and the many uses made of them pre vent standardization."
Mr. Marples announced that he was looking into this matter after Mr. -Leonard Cleaver (Tory. Yardley) had asked that mudguards on lorries and cars should be standardized to prevent the muddy spray which was dangerous to other traffic.