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THREE months ago (as reported in
I The Commercial Motor of August 21) the Minister of Transport announced that he was considering amending regulations to reduce the number of people required to be employed in driving or attending certain vehicles. A further Ministerial announcement has now been made concerning heavy haulage.
It has been contended that a motor vehicle drawing trailers and operating under the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special Types) General Order 1963 is required to have the attendants enumerated in Article 24 of that Order in addition to those required by Section 72 of the Road Traffic Act, 1960. The Minister did not intend the Order to have this effect and therefore proposes to amend paragraph (3) of Article 24 so as to make the position clear. It will also be necessary to make a similar amendment to paragraph (2) Schedule 6 of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1963 relating to projecting loads.
The Minister further proposes to remove an anomaly in the same Article whereby an attendant is at present required if the vehicle or load exceeds 8 ft. The amended Construction and Use Regulations which came into effect on August 21 already permit the overall width of a normal vehicle to be 2-5 metres (8 ft. 2+ in.). It is therefore proposed to amend Article 24 of the Special Types Order so that 8 ft. 2+ in. becomes the relevant dimension.
North London Restrictions: The Minister of Transport has made an Experimental Order to bring into operation next Monday waiting and loading restrictions on four miles of the Al in Finsbury. Islington and Hornsey. Main roads concerned are Islington High Street, Upper Street, Holloway Road and Archway Road.
Chiswick Flyover Re-opened: The Chiswick flyover, now extended to three-quarters of a mile in length, was re-opened to traffic on Wednesday. It is for use by motor traffic only and is subject to a speed limit of 40 m.p.h. The original flyover was closed to traffic last August so that it could be linked to the new elevated Chiswick-Langley section of the London-South Wales motorway (M4).