" T.R.T.A. CAMPAIGN IS YOUR LAST CHANCE"
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IF the "Kerb Space is Precious" cam
paign is a failure, more parking restrictions are inevitable at Birmingham. This warning was given on Monday be the city's Chief Constable. Mr. E. 1 Dodd, who referred to the campaign as "the motorists' and traders' last chance."
Sir Herbert Manzoni. City Engineer and Surveyor, referred to the problem of double banking, It was the sort of thing which stopped traffic movement, he said, and methods of preventing it had got to be worked out.
At Stoke-on-Trent, Mr. W. E. Watson, Chief Constable, said freedom of passage was the first requirement of the highway, but access for loading and unloading vehicles came a close second. If the Traders' Road Transport Association " code of behaviour were followed there was unlikely to be any need for police action against traders.
(Other news of the campaign on Page 127.)