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"Disastrous Consequences"

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5th May 1961

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Page 66, 5th May 1961 — "Disastrous Consequences"

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AN attack on the Ministry's clearway proposals was made at the annual lunch of the London and Home Counties division of the Traders' Road Transport Association in London last week by the chairman, Mr. H. C. Chandler.

The present proposals, he said, were an attempt to solve the problem "on the cheap." To take a series of busy thoroughfares, and apply the kind of rules used on an open road clearway was making a nonsense of sensible priorities.

Mr. Chandler reminded his audience that the Ministry had plans for imposing the same restrictions on another 90 miles of roads in the London area.

The full effect of these restrictions could lead to a breakdown of the distributive services which a city like London daily enjoys, said Mr. Chandler. "I give this clear warning, with all the sincerity and force at my command on behalf of the T.R.T.A., we think the consequences could be disastrous.

Services Withdrawn "It is likely that some services would have to be withdrawn entirely, because of the sheer impossibility of making deliveries in the few hours of the day which are left, and because the housewife would find some deliveries quite useless after a certain time of the day."

The proposed bans left two or three effective hours before lunchtime. By then, some 70 per cent, of the housewife's daily purchases were made. "Are we to flood the streets with more and more vans and lorries during that time, and are those hours to then become impossible because of the congestion arising from the concentration of deliveries within these short periods?" he asked.

The national president of the T.R.T.A., Mr. S. C. Bond, referred to increased subscriptions as "something of an inevitable development as time goes on." The matter was under national consideration.

Pink Zone Bans To Continue

THE experimental loading and unload' ing bans, introduced in London when the last Christmas Pink Zone came into operation, are to be extended until October 31. And it is the Minister of Transport's intention to make them permanent.

Restrictions apply at many busy intersections and the lengths of road where waiting for all purposes is prohibited are marked with yellow lines. The bans are effective from 8.30 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. on Mondays to Fridays and till 1.30 p.m. on Saturdays.

To provide alternative kerb space for loading and unloading, waiting for other purposes is prohibited in adjoining lengths of road.