Surveyors Press for More Motorways
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BRITAIN'S motorway programme is not nearly big enough, according to the County Surveyors' Society, who recommend the addition of a further 1,700 miles of new roads—some of them motorways, some expressways.
Their hon. secretary, Mr. Kenneth Summerfield, county surveyor of Oxfordshire, gave the first news of the society's report on its second motorways investigation when he spoke at the Institution of Civil Engineers last week. Mr. C. T. Brunner. vice-chairman of the British Road Federation, described it as "a most revealing and disturbing analysis of the shortcomings of the present Government road programme."
The recommendations, coming as they did from such a responsible source as the County Surveyors' Society, he said, could not possibly be ignored by the Government, and it was to be hoped that the Minister of Transport would make an early statement regarding them.