ROAD MAINTENANCE POLICY "SHEER FOLLY" -E Government's Order that rou
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ine maintenance of roads should be cut by 30 per cent, is described in the annual report of the Roads Improvement Association as "sheer folly," and likely to have costly consequences. The report points out that the roads are deteriorating rapidly and that transport operators are being put to great expense as a result of damage caused to their vehicles by bad roads.
"When eventually the demand for repairs can no longer be resisted, the • cost of the work will be many times that of continued maintenance," the Association claims.
First attention should be given to improvement schemes in the areas in which the people worked and lived and where 80 per cent. of all traffic circulation took place. The policy of providing additional road space where constructional conditions were convenient and then to regiment the public to use it was unsound and uneconomic. Roads should be made to fit the traffic, instead of fitting the traffic to the roads.
The R.I.A. will hold its annual general meeting at the Royal Automobile Club on June 3.
STORNOWAY OPERATORS UNITE
APRIVATE Company, entitled Western Lewis Coaches, Ltd., 40, Carloway, Stornoway, has just been registered, with capital of £9,000, to acquire the transport businesses of Donald Macarthur, John., Macarthur, Peter Macaulay, Angus Macleod, Alex. Maeleod, Angus W. Macleod, Murdo MacLean, and John A. Maephail.
40 RADIO TAXI FLEETS QINCE August of last year, when a k-.) fleet of taxicabs in Cambridge was fitted with. Pye telecommunication apparatus, vehicles of nearly 40 other operators have been similarly equipped. Savings of 25 per cent, in lost time, as well as in fuel and tyreS, are reported.