Battles Over Waiting Restrictions Coming
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T"great problem of increasing restrictions of loading/unloading times is still with us, a menace not yet
fully recognized by the rank and file. Our disturbing experiences, of the past four years have been• no more than preliminary skirmishes."
This is stated in the 1956-57 report of the London and Home Counties Division of the Traders' Road Transport Association. Powers for restriction were developing and it would take much energy and effort to ensure reasonableness.
" We must not underrate this threat. Officials think more and more of deliveries only between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. with a further hour or two ban in the middle just for luck. The Ilford and Romford Borough Councils have not thought it harmful to suggest an almost total ban on Saturdays," it is stated.
Local authorities outside London were to be given substantial freedom enabling them to ban deliveries for up to six hours a day.
CENSUS TO RELIEVE LONDON'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM
(-HECK points for counting bus pas
sengers as they ride past have been set up on the fringe of London's central area as part of a census of peak-period passenger traffic, begun on Tuesday by the Committee for Staggering of Working Hours in Central London.
Observers, using hand-tally counters which "click in" every passenger, are stationed at the check points. They are also on duty at all main-line rail terminals and at 50 Underground. stations in central London.
The census will tell the committee of • the places and times where relief from congestion is most urgently needed. The information will go to six zone subcommittees formed by employers and trade unions who, with traffic experts, will work out new staggered-hours plans for half-mile-wide sectors in the inner area.
It is hoped that the sub-committees' plans will spread the peak-period traffic load more evenly over all transport services.
REES JEFFREYS GRANT ,
PPLICATIONS are invited for a I-1 Rees Jeffreys studentship, tenable at the London School of Economics, Houghton Street, Aldwych, London, W.C.2, to enable a suitable candidate to devote at least a year to full-time research into the economics of transport. The studentship is open to any person who has been engaged in the administration of transport or in the production of transport equipment or facilities.
The value will be £500 and the studentship will be tenable from October 1. Applications must he received not later than September 1.