Proper Planning for New Roads
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THE requirements of a planned new road were outlined by Mr. Hugh Molson, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, when he spoke at the annual general meeting of the Town and Country Planning Association last week.
They were, he said, that the road should follow the right line for the purpose of traffic, particularly longdistance traffic; that its route he kept free of development until it were completed; that building should not be allowed to take place along it; and, particularly, there should not be a large number of accesses.
He thought that the Ministry ought to be consulted about the siting of all new important building developments. It was their duty to protest against any planning for which it might be necessary to invest large amounts of capital to provide transport for great numbers of people to he carried substantial distances twice daily between their places of work and their homes. It was uneconomic to invest in capital plant which would be used for so few hours during thc day.