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£15m. Contract for Yorkshire Motorway

24th January 1958
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WORK on the London-Yorkshire motorway will start in two months and will be completed by the end of October, 1959, the Ministry of Transport announced this week. The motorway will be 53 miles long, from St. Albans to Rugby, and will cost £15m. Some 62 bridges are to be built.

The contract has been awarded to John Laing and Son, Ltd., and is one of the largest of its kind ever awarded to one concern. At intervals of 12 miles service areas are to he built, providing filling stations, parking areas, transport cafés, toilet accommodation and telephones. There will be no waiting on the road, but drivers will be able to stop on the verges in an emergency.

The Roads Campaign Council stated on Tuesday that to make the motorway fully effective, a further motorway link to Yorkshire and the north-cast should next be planned and built. The British Road Federation congratulated the Minister of Transport on the announcement.

"ALL APPLICANTS MUST PROVE NEED"

A PPLICANTS for B licences should C't not think that they were entitled to a grant just because the objectors were unable to do the work. This was pointed out on Tuesday by Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, when he refused an application by Mr. G. Williams, Wallasey, for a new B licence to carry food products within 50 miles.

Mr. Lindsay said the applicant had to prove need, and in this case Mr. Williams had not done so. British Road Services, British Railways and Mr. T. H. Taylor, Wallasey, objected.

Mr. J. Dawson, for the applicant, said Mr. Williams was now a driver-salesman for his father, who manufactured and processed such products as potato crisps and peanuts. If a licence were granted for his Morris Minor shooting brake, he would be paid both as a carrier and on commission for sales.

The objectors could not be harmed, unless they were prepared to act as salesmen as well as carriers. Mr. Williams was not prepared to accept a restriction to his father's concern only.

Mr. G. P. Crowe, for the British Transport Commission, said they had no objection to a grant restricted to the one concern.

B.R. WITHDRAW OPPOSITION 'WHEN Mr. J. R. Parkinson, Bradford, VV applied last week to take over a two-vehicle B licence held by Mr. H. Davison, Bradford, he told the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority that he would need only one of the vehicles. At this, British Railways withdrew their objection. They were assured that Mr. Davison was not retaining part of the licence.

Granting the application, Mr. J. H. E. Randolph said the records showed that good use had been made of both vehicles.


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