Improve Existing Roads, says County Architect
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RATHER than build ambitious new roads, it would be better to improve existing highways, Mr. F. B. Pooley, Bucks county architect, told the annual conference 'of the National Housing and Town Planning Council at Scarborough, last week.
The major causes of congestion on major roads, he said, were heavy lorries and coaches. The Americans had built special trains to carry large vehicles, and if such trains could be introduced in this country, vehicles could he carried from one town to another quickly by rail for dis7Persal by road at the destination.
If new motor roads were to be built, the network of streets in towns would have to be improved. 'When we have built the new motor roads, it will be rather like running a big tap on to a sponge, where the traffic comes into the town," he said.