"Tell Us the Time" Signs Urged
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WHERE ._ cities have ring roads VI' involving extra, mileage, authorities should erect signs indicating the hours when time is likely to be saved by their use, so that, when little congestion is expected on more direct routes, drivers can follow these.
This suggestion was made by the Lord Mayor of Kingston-upon-Hull, Alderman K. Turner, at the annual dinner of the Road Haulage Association's Yorkshire (Hull) Area held last Friday at the Guildhall, Hull.
Although the Port of Hull had been built by the railways for the railways, said Major J. 13:. Upton, High Sheriff of Yorkshire and president of the Hull Chamber of Commerce and Shipping, the B.T.C. had shown that they recognized
the shape of things to come. Until there was a double carriageway from Hull into Lancashire the road hauliers would not be able to give the service needed, especially when industry faced entry into the Common Market This development was of greater importance than the proposed Humber Bridge.
Mr. J. B. Mitchell, R.H.A. national chairman, stressed the importance of dock improvements when he spoke of
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the association's campaign to cut down waiting times of vehicles. It had been said that Hull Customs officials kept too strictly to the letter of the law. Forwarding agents also could do more to keep traffic on the move.