Maidstone Buses Hit by Traffic Jams
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COME of the worst traffic conditions in L) the country arc covered by Maidstone and District Motor Services. Ltd., whose buses travel about 281m: miles a year, carrying 144m. passengers. This was stated by Mr. A. 3. White, general manager, when road-safety awards were presented to 897 drivers.
. He said everyone was impatiently awaiting the time when the proposed motorway through North Kent would become a fact instead of a plan. Maidstone itself was scheduled to have a new by-pass, and there was to he a new bridge and lietter approach to Sheppey.
Traffic bottlenecks were at present adding enormously to the company's operating costs and, with tax on oil fuel. the Government were getting money for nothing as buses crawled through heavy traffic.