Shields Ferry Rates to be Increased
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THE Tyne Improvement Commission have offered to hand over their passenger and vehicular ferry service between South Shields and North Shields, without charge, to South Shields and Tynemouth Corporations.
The ferry operates at a considerable annual loss, and previous efforts by the Commission to transfer it to the corporations have failed. The Commission intend
to improve the financial position by increasing the toll for certain vehicles by 6d., increasing passenger fares. from 3d. to 4d., and discontinuing the overnight service.
BY-PASS FOR HARLOW NEW TOWN WORK is to begin shortly on the conVV struction of a £600,000 by-pass for Harlow and Potter Street, on the LondonNorwich trunk road (A.I About three miles of single carriageway road, 33 ft. wide, will be built, from a point south of Potter Street to Harlow Station bridge, which is to be reconstructed. In addition, about *-mile of the existing road north of Harlow, and halfmile to the south, will be widened and improved.
Access to the new road will be at four points only and five pedestrian subways are to be built.
I.o.P.E. TALKS
A DISCUSSION on road construction
will be held by the North Midlands Region of the Institute of Production Engineers, on December 2, when they hold a joint meeting at Peterborough with the Peterborough branch of the Incorporated Plant Engineers. The following night, the Institute's South Western Region will be addressed at Bristol University by Mr. A. G. Hayek on " Materials Handling—a Challenge to British Industry."