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Roads to Come—in Miniature
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ILLUSTRATING the work proceeding on some of the 2,400 road improvement and construction schemes started in England and Wales during the past two years, an exhibition at Charing CrossUnderground station, London, contains a number of interesting models depicting various works as they will appear when completed.
Most intriguing. of these is a representation of Vz miles of the LondonYorkshire motorway. There are also models of the Hyde Park Corner— Marble Arch and Cromwell Road flyover schemes. Another shows the projected £500,000 Conway bridge on the A55 road.
Organized by the Ministry of Transport, the exhibition explains why four or five years elapse before work starts on a new highway scheme, and why it is desirable often to improve existing roads, rather than hi:1dd new, where agricultural land Might be lost.
It is open until July 6 daily from 10.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m., except Sunday.
When he opened the exhibition on Monday, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, said that the steadily expanding road programme had three main constituents. the first was to start a national network of modern trunk routes; the second to clear away major bottlenecks in towns; and third to.. press forward with smaller -road works throughout the country.
"This three-point plan of campaign is the programme which we must press forward with all possible speed," he stated. "1 am not g-oing to be diverted from it by propaganda or criticism, however well intended."
MAIN BUS COMPETITORS CARS AND SCOOTERS
PRIVATE cars and scooters were the greatest competitors of road passenger, transport, the West Midland TrafficCommissioners were told last Friday. Mr. R. Brandon, traffic manager of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co:, Ltd., added that this competition was still increasing.
Ho was applying to continue cuts imposed on more than 50 services during the Suez Crisis. Mr. Brandon said that When. petrol rationing ended the number of passengers carried was 2m. lower than in May last year. The cuts sought were already in operation, and the company Wanted to ma4 them permanent.
Many councils objected to the proposals, and decision was reserved.
WAGES AND HOURS THE 11th edition of "Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour" has been published by the Stationery Otiice (11s.). Tables show minimum or standard time rates of wages and normal hours of labour in the more important industries.