Restricting Transfer of Goods.
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In connection with the loading and unloading of goods in busy streets, the roads committee of Bournemouth Corporation has interviewed the Chamber of.Trade with regard to certain restrictions. The committee has approved a draft letter, which is to be scab to all traders in certain roads, requesting them to assist the corporation by arranging for the loading and unloading of goods at times when it will cause the least inconvenience to traffic.
Power to Forbid Erection of Garage Questioned.
Atherstone Rural District Council recently refused to approve the erection of a garage at a road intersection. it being held that the structure would cause danger by obstructing the view at the junction. The owner approached the Ministry of Health on the matter, and it was intimated that the council had no proper grounds for objection.
Warwick County Council has now served upon the owner a notice, under the Roads Improvement Act, 1925, forbidding the erection of the building.
C.C. and Recovery of Coat of Road Repairs.
The roads committee of Warwick County Council has decided to take steps, under the Road Traffic Act, to recover the cost of road repairs said to have been necessitated as the result of the use of certain highways by extraordinary traffic in connection with canal works.
By-passing Cardiff: Important Road Scheme.
The new orbital road around Cardiff, from east to west, is now to be cornpleted. Traffic will leave the Newport Road—a section of the through South Wales route—between Rumney and Cardiff. and rejoin the road west of Cardiff, at Ely. The eastern portion of the scheme was started some time ago, but was discontinued.
Now the Ministry or Transport has promised a grant of 75 per cent, of the
cost of completing the scheme by continuing the road construction from the junction of the highway with the Cardiff-Llandaff road, to the new railway-crossing bridge at Ely; on the west
side of the city. A condition of the grant is the immediate restarting of the work, at a cost of about £200,000, of which Cardiff Corporation will pay £47,500. Cardiff Public Works Committee recommends the acceptance of the offer.
Essex Issues More Licences.
Essex County Local Taxation Committee reports that from December. 1, 1932, to February 28, 1933, 22,496 annual motor licences were issued, compared with 22,226 during the corresponding period last year, and 25,498 quarterly lieences, compared with 24,471 during the previous year. Liceaces for horse-drawn vehicles numbered 506, as against 710 a year earlier,