PARKING PLANS FOR VISITING COACHES.
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Official Information, Aided by Maps, Which Should Prove of Inestimable Value to Coach Proprietors.
WITH THE continued expansion of the motor coaching movement enterprising municipal authorities, in many of the places which are listed artiongst the popular runs on users' programmes have found it imperative to set aside a convenient space for the accommodation of visiting coaches. This ia very desirable, because it obviates the. obstruction of local traffic and dispenses with the -risk of -unwaa•ranted interference from " the man in blue." The allocation of a definite parking site centralizes the whole of the arrangements and thus avoids the trouble which would be caused by owners and drivers being a law unto themselves in the matter.
There are many authorities, we know, who have not yet appreciated the need for Special arrangements for the reception of vehicles coming into the town over which they exer
cise control, and the freedom which they have permitted in the past has undoubtedly been responsible for the general impression that drivers can set down. and pick up their passengers, and " garage " their machines; in any thoroughfare which they choose.
Such, however, is fat from being the case in many of the popular seaboard towns and busy inland centres, and, in order to correcd, this erroneous impression and to provide helpful guidance to coach owners and drivers, we have decided to commence a new feature of our motor coach news, which -will include information detailing the existence of special parking facilities and local restrictions on loading and unloading.
The particulars which will he published have been obtained from official sources, and, accordingly, can be relied upon in detail, the maps which will accompany them being drawn in such a manner as to indicate clearly the various routes of approach to the parking ground.
This week we deal with Oxford, Norwich and Cardiff, in which places the following arrangements are made for the benefit of. visiting motor coaches.
OXFORD.—In this city St. Giles Street is the parking centre. This is a wide thoroughfare in the centre of the city, easy of access, and close to the principal shopping districts. The police authorities prefer that passengers should be picked up at the place of parking.
Nonwicn.—Motor coaches are allowed to stand in Bell Avenue, Cattle Market, between Shirehall, Market Avenue, and Bell Hotel Tap in Farmers' Avenue, or in All Saints' Green, in close proximity to the horse trough. On Saturdays, which is cattle market day, the Cattle Market stand is 'closed to motor coaches, and use must be made of the alternative parking space.
CAnnor.—Facilities are afforded in this city for motor coaches to be accommodated in Museum Avenue, Cathays Park, within which the principal municipal buildings are located.'
We would suggest that coach owners should carefully pre;eryo these maps and particulars for the benefit of • their drivers. • Although only that information dealing with places within, say, 80 odd miles of headquarters will be of immediate use to those engaged in the running of day and half-day tours, for those users whose interests lie farther afield, and whose vehicles are employed on long-distance touring, the complete series. should possess a much wider valuo.