Traffic to Midlands Speeded Up
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FOR the next 10 or 20 years, highway construction was going to be one of the most. conspicuous features in the life of the nation, said Mr. J. A. BoydCarpenter, Minister of Transport, last week, He was opening the E250,000 dual carriageway on the BirminghamCoventry road at Digbeth, Birmingham.
The British Road Federation described it as "the only major highway improvement carried out in a heavily built up area since the war. specifically to benefit industrial road transport. It shows what can be done when a persistent group of industrialists and their civic authority prove the case for a better road and hammer it home with the Government, refusing to be discouraged by apathy towards roads."
Further plans for easing Birmingham's traffic problems were envisaged by the Minister including the inner ring road and a pedestrian subway at the Bull Street-Corporation Street junction.