Roads Not for Parking— Mr. Alex Samuels
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"ROADS exist as a means for the movement of vehicles and not as a resting place for them," Mr. Alex Samuels, chairman of the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, told the London Division of the Industrial Transport Association on Tuesday.
Most London traffic was composed of vehicles running wholly within a 20-mile radius. Radial expressways would not be of great value, as only the small proportion of through or inward and outward traffic would benefit from them. Intersections were a major source of interference with traffic flow, and many features could be improved, including the discipline of drivers.
Long-term parking in the streets was tolerable when traffic was below street
capacity, but today parked vehicles occupied too much space, to the detriment of moving vehicles. Legislation against long-term parking should ease the task of drivers of delivery vehicles by affording them better access to the kerb. The staggering of working hours would greatly help to ease peak-hour traffic problems. It would not be possible.
to introduce big one-way traffic schemes: if, for example, Piccadilly and Oxford Street were made one-way thoroughfares. there would be no room on the adjacent streets for the displaced streams of vehicles.
Mr. Samuels agreed that the linking of the North and South London rail termini would relieve the load on the streets, and said that he would welcorry suggestions from Association members for the alleviation of congestion.
PRIVATE BUS OPERATORS SEEK TRAM TRAFFIC
APPEALS by two bus companies, who are seeking a share of traffic formerly carried by trams between Paisley and Renfrew, opened in Glasgow on Tuesday. McGill's Bus Services, Ltd., and Graham's Bus Services, Ltd., were contesting the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' refusal to grant them services between the towns.
They also challenged the grant of Paisley-Renfrew licences to the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd. The inquiry, which was expected to last three days, followed an eight-day hearing before the Commissioners.
B.R.S. DRIVERS FINED
TWO British Road Services drivers were fined at Sheffield on Monday for falsely claiming subsistence allowances. Charges were brought after their vehicles had been seen parked at Pitsmoor.
One of the defendants, who paid a line of E5 for obtaining 15s. subsistence by a false claim and another of £2 for making an untrue statement on an expenses claim form, said that he had later repaid the money by not claiming when he was entitled to do so. The other driver was fined a total of £6.