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THE Traders' Road Transport Asso
ciation and the London Transport Executive are to oppose an intended application by Romford Borough Council to impose restrictions to relieve congestion at 'he South Street-North Street and High Street-Market Street intersection in the town.
Most of the council's suggestions concern bus stops. It is also proposed to ban loading and unloading between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. Mondays to Fridays and from 10 a.m. 7 p.m. on Saturdays. Representations so far made to the council by the T.R.T.A. seem to have been unavailing.
On May 1, Oxford Corporation will ban waiting in Hollow Way between 11.30 a.m. and 1 p.m. This restriction is condoned by the T.R.T.A. because of lunch-time congestion.
In certain parts of Seal, Kent, stopping of vehicles should be limited to 30 minutes between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee have recommended. This would apply to vehicles stopping to load or unload.
In Sevenoaks, it is proposed that unloading be banned between 8.30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on weekdays in specified streets.
"PUBLIC CAN WALK," SAYS BUS OPERATOR
A FTER M. and M. Coaches, Ltd.,
Franche Road, Kidderminster, were fined a total of £18 19s. 6d. at Bridgnorth last week, Mr. T. B. Morris, a director, stated that when the road service licence expired it would not be renewed and the public would have to walk.
The charges were that the company used a public service vehicle as a stage carriage without a conductor, that no time-tables or fare tables were carried, and fares other than those prescribed were charged.
The magistrate said that the Bench appreciated the difficulty of running a country service. The company were not always to blame and had been let down by their servants.
OUTPUT AND EXPORTS UP
A TOTAL of 33,798 goods vehicles I-1 and chassis was made in March, bringing the total for the first quarter of this year to 91,526, compared with 81,788 for the first quarter of 1955. An aggregate of 995 public service vehicles and chassis was produced last month, making a total for the first quarter of 2,836, as against 2,660 for the comparable period of last year.
Exports of goods vehicles and chassis last month totalled 13,687, making 40,558 for the first quarter, compared with 40,380 in the first quarter of 1955. Altogether 400 public service vehicles and chassis were sold abroad, bringing the first quarter's total to 963, as nainst 720 for the comparable period a year earlier.