Seven More Bottlenecks to Go
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SEVEN improvement schemes to remove bottlenecks have been announced by the Ministry of Transport.
Work has started on the construction of a by-pass at Handcross to remove a bottleneck on the London-Brighton road. It will be about a mile long and is estimated to cost £190,000.
Work is to begin this month also on the construction of a twin-carriageway road, 2+ miles long, to relieve a bottleneck where the London-Preston trunk road now passes through Longton, Lancs. It will cost nearly 000.0013.
Five othet big improvement schemes are expected to start during the next few weeks. The mile-long section of Watford Way (A.1) between Page Street and Mill Hill Circus is to be made into a double track at a cost of £251,000. Twin carriageways on the Great Cam bridge Road (A.10). northward from Bury Street, Edmonton, to Carterhatch Lane, Enfield, a distance of about two miles. are to be extended at a cost of £200,000.
Under a £250.000 scheme, over a mile of twin carriageways will be provided on Western Avenue from Greenford railway bridge to Alperton Lane. The junction of Barnet by-pass and Archway Road is to be reconstructed at a cost of £40,000. Roehampton Lane. near Queen Mary's Hospital, is to be widened at a cost of £232,000.
The Minister of Transport said last Friday that the construction of the London-Birmingham motorway was expected to start at the end of next year and to be completed in 1960.
67 GUYS FOR OVERSEAS MEW export orders for 67 goods and passenger vehicles, valued at nearly £130,000. are announced by Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton. Operators in Hong Kong have ordered 27 vehicles; Australia, two; Nairobi. 12: Portuguese East Africa, two: Gold Coast, eight: Spain, one; Portugal. three; and Belgium, 12. Most of the orders are repeats.