OUT-OF-DATE BRIDGES.
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The inconvenience caused to users by the closing of bridges to heavy motor vehicles was discussed at a recent meeting, at Liverpool, of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch (Western Section) of the Roads Improvement Association. Mr. David Moore, hon. secretary of the branch!, said the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Co. had posted notices on many of its bridges declaring them insufficient to carry motor vehicles above a certain weight, and the result was that a large
number of heavy motors was obliged to take circuitous routes, thus involving much loss of time.
Mr. Allen Walter, secretary of the Liverpool Cart and Motor Owners' Association, said that transport concerns were confronted with the problem of carrying lighter loads or of avoiding the forbidden bridges. If the canal company's notices were strictly observed, the heavier types of wagon, even when empty, would not be able to pass over certain bridges.
It was stated that the Lancashire County Council proposed to spend 1109,000 on the improvement of bridges, provided the Ministry of Transport would contribute its share, and subject to an agreement with the canal companies. It was decided to seek the advice of Mr. George Pepler, townplanning adviser to the Ministry of Health, as tc the best means for pressing forward the modernization of bridges and to appoint a deputation to interview the proper authorities.