Traffic Plans for London Scheme
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110LANS for maintaining the flow of I traffic in the West End of London during the 28 months that the Park Lane improvement scheme is being undertaken were announced by London County Council on Tuesday. If diversions become necessary at later stages, it is unlikely that heavy vehicles will be permitted to use the carriageways in Hyde Park, other than those concerned in the improvement.
This is because the carriageways have no foundations and will not support large weights. Work is due to begin in about 10 days. Mr. J. Rawlinson, chief engineer of the L.C.C., considers that both the Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch intersections will continue to be able to carry the same amount of traffic as at present, but that it would pass through them more slowly during peak periods.
The Metropolitan. Police had not obtained the construction schedulefrom the contractors at the beginning of this week and could not tell whether diversions would be needed. However, Supt. Thomson, of the Traffic Branch. suggested that traffic diversions might become necessary later. •
The main provision which the L.C.C. are to make for maintaining traffic flow at Hyde Park Corner is the installation of an 800-ft-long temporary viaduct above the South Carriage Road in Hyde Park. This will link Knightsbridge with the junction and carry two lanes of westeast traffic.
Work is to be divided into five stages The first two, which should be completed by Christmas, are not expected to have severe effects on traffic movement, and will include the building of the viaduct, This will be in use by the time the third stage begins, and will enable the more extensive works, including the construction of the underpass from Knightsbridge to Piccadilly, to be undertaken.
NO MORE DERV RECORDS? E national executive committee of the Road Haulage Association received a report, on Wednesday, on proposals by the Government to take power to require .duty-free fuel to be coloured. This, it was thought, might avoid the need for transport operators to keep records of the use of derv.