Manchester's Transport Estimates.
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One interesting feature of the transport estimates of Manchester CorporatiOn's cleansing department, for the year ending March 31, 1934, is the proposed readjustment of expenditure on the different systems of transport.
It is proposed further to cut the cost of horse-drawn transport to £79,852, but to spend more money on petroldriven transport—£32,496 as against £30,750 in the municipal year now concluding. Less use will be made of water transport, but more of rail transport, the expenditure under both these heads being about 116,000.
The following is an epitome of the highways department's proposed expenditure : Steam-wagon transport, J675; hired vehicles (horse-drawn and motor-driven), £9,629; motors, £2,970. The transport committee proposes to spend £85,000 on the purchase of new motorbuses.
Death of Rotherham Official.
The death is announced of Mr. W. J. H. M. Cornick, A.M.Inst.T., traffic superintendent of the transport department of Rotherham Corporation. He joined the staff of the department as traffic inspector in 1903, after previous municipal transport experience at Blackburn. In 1919 he was appointed chief inspector, and seven years later took over the responsible position of traffic superintendent.
Weight Limit on Suspension Bridge.
Yarmouth Corporation is considering the question of the Vauxhall suspension bridge, which is said to be of doubtful stability. Meanwhile, it is to be limited to vehicles of not more than a ton.