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ROAD TRANSPORT MATTERS IN PARLIAMENT.

24th July 1928, Page 49
24th July 1928
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Page 49, 24th July 1928 — ROAD TRANSPORT MATTERS IN PARLIAMENT.
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The Projected Bridges Legislation. Rural Districts and Road Administration. London's One-way Streets.

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent.

M HE actual payments from the Road Fund to wards the cost of road maintenance improvement and construction in the past four periods of six months were :—To June 30th, 1928, £7,718,000; ta December 31st, 1927, £10,714,000; to June 30th, 1927, £7,682,000; to December 31st, 1926, £9,406,000.

Bridges Bill.

THE Minister of Transport has expressed the hope that an early opportunity may present itself for the introduction of legislation on the lines of the Bridges Bill, which has been dropped for this session, Ferry Lane Improvement.

AGREEMENT, the Minister of Transport states, has now been reached between the several authorities concerned with the Ferry Lane, Tottenham (London) improvement, and particulars of the proposed improvement have been submitted to him by the Middlesex County Council. (Ferry Lane is one of the important connecting links between Middlesex and Essex, which are divided by the River Lea.) So soon as these have been fully examined he expects to be able to make an offer of assistance from the Road Fund, and he hopes that the local authorities will then proceed to carry out the sdieme.

Roads in Devon.

THE mileage of roads in the County of Devon as _L at April 1st, 1928, was as follows :—Class roads, 669 miles; Class II roads, 465 miles; unclassified roads, 6,660 miles. Total mileage, 7,794.

Rural Districts and Road Administration.

rpHE Government has been asked whether any _L action was taken to ascertain the opinion of rural district councils on the proposals to transfer the responsibility for the administration of all highways in rural districts to county councils, and, if not, whether such consultation would take place in view of the resolution of protest unanimously

passed at a conference of rural district councils held at the Guildhall on June 26th. Col. Ashley pointed cut that the recent publication of the Government's proposals for the reform of local government would afford local authorities an opportunity of making representations on any part of the scheme in which they were specially concerned.

One-way Traffic in London.

TTHE" one-way " traffic system, it is officially stated, is at present in operation in the whole or parts of the following streets or places in the metropolitan area


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