Mudflaps, Lights and Street Parking
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ASKED to make mud flaps compulsory on all vehicles, Mr. Marples said in the House this week that he would wait until the Road Research Laboratory had reached conclusions on its tests of flaps and rigid mudguards before considering whether new regulations should be made.
New Light Rules?
A suggestion that heavy lorries needed small, non-glare lights at their upper corners, and a query about the improvement of motor vehicle lighting generally, were met by the Minister with a statement that he was considering the introduction of regulations making it compulsory for lamps on new vehicles to conform to the British Standards specification; he was also reviewing regulations controlling front and rear lighting generally, he said.
Mr. Marples pointed out that Part I of the specification set minimum and maximum limits for the luminous intensity of side and rear lamps and, to limit glare from stop lights and direction indicators, the specification set lower intensities for use in darkness than in daylight.
Wrong to Prohibit When a demand to ban the parking of lorries in London streets (except for loading and unloading) was repeated in the Commons this week, Mr. Marples said that in the absence of adequate off-street parking it would be wrong to prohibit all street parking. More lorry parks were needed, but their provision was the responsibility of local authorities and a field for private enterprise. He told Mr. Eric Fletcher (Lab., Islington East) that he was well aware of the Islington situation but police action and the opening of a lorry park in Baines Street had improved conditions.