Builder loses licence
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kN Inverness building con.ractor has had his licence' .evoked for failing to attend a fleeting of the town's Licencng Authority.
M. R. MacKenzie had been ":.alled to give reasons why a icence for his two vehicles thould not be revoked, suspended or permanently terminated or curtailed.
It was said that his vehicles had not been in a serviceable ondition and that he had ulready been prohibited from using them.
LA Alex Birnie said patience had been accorded to Mr Vlackenzie and because he had failed to appear on three separate occasions, his licence would be revoked. THE Transport and Road Research Laboratory is to carry out loading tests on the left • hand lane of the east-bound carriageway of the M4 Wye Bridge, as a programme of research into the performance of decks on steel bridges.
The work has been arranged to coincide with current lane restrictions during remedial work on the rocker assemblies of the Severn Bridge in a bid to cut down traffic interference.
Traffic is almost bound to be delayed on the bridge as a result of the lane restrictions and drivers have been warned to take alternative routes. TENDERS have been invited for the building of the Castleton-Coryton section of the M4 motorway on the outskirts of Cardiff.
And in North Wales, Gwynedd County Council has been given the green light to invite tenders for the improvement of the A494 near Bala.
• Meanwhile, the Department of Transport has accepted a £1.7 million tender from Fairdough Civil Engineering for the construction of the second Runnymede Bridge, across the River Thames in Berkshire.
The bridge, which will form part of the M25 London Outer Orbital Road, is expected to be completed in about two years time.