£32m, Road Works Start This Year
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RoAp works to cost £321m. would be started before the end of the current financial year, Mr. Harold Walk inson, Minister of Transport, stated on Monday. In the present year he expected to spend £26m. on new construction.
Mr. Watkinson said that the new road programme was " now really getting into its stride." In the current year schemes costing £66m. would be authorized, and next year the figure might be higher. Between April and August this year, 377 schemes costing Lift. were put in hand, and towards the end of the year the LondonBirmingham motorway, the St. Albans by-pass, the Ross spur and the Maidstone by-pass had to be put under way. Funds were adequate for schemes to be pressed forward.
SUPPORT FOR BULK DELIVERY
AFTER British Railways had failed to support their objection, and the only other objector had withdrawn, Bulk Liquid Transport, Ltd., Gildersome, were last week granted a new A licence for a 10-ton articulated hopper-type tanker, by the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr.
J. H. A. Randolph. • Mr. Alan Goss, for the applicants, said they wanted to carry acid fluospar in bulk from two mines in County Durham to Imperial Chemical Indus tries, Ltd., Runcorn. Although the Runcorn works were connected by sidings, British Railways were unable to deliver in bulk to the site required.
At present, about 2,000 tons of fluospar a year were carried in bags from County Durham by road, but the present operators were unable to provide bulk facilities. Witnesses for Fluospar, Ltd., and the Weardale Lead Co., Ltd., the Durham suppliers, explained that unless the material could now be delivered in bulk they would lose the work.
A representative of I.C.I. said their policy was to encourage bulk road delivery, which 'had proved cheaper than the bagged method, ONE-MAN BUSES: UNIONS MUST CHANGE OUTLOOK
AN appeal for "an etilightened outlook" by trade unions on the operation of one-man buses was made by Mr. James Amos, chairman of Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., when he spoke to Northern Ireland members of the Institute of Transport in Belfast. He claimed that one-man operation would be a partial solution of the problem of rural transport.
The fact that a railway line had operated in a particular district was, in itself, no justification for the continuance of an alternative road service. Each route had to be dealt with on its merits.
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