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Mr Marsh wants suburban lorry parks

8th November 1968
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• "Local authorities can, by bold parking decisions, radically change the urban transport scene," said Mr Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, addressing a seminar of the British Parking Association in London on October 30.

"The Government", he said, -is now thinking of the total parking scene as a sophisticated balance of on-street and off-street parking suited to the amount of capacity of the road network."

Mr Marsh advocated the provision of more interchange car parks on the outskirts of major cities and towns where commuters could leave their cars and continue their journey by public transport.

"It is in the interests of both public transport and those who have the power to provide and invest in parking, to press on vigorously with their opportunities for creating systematic interchanges in particular towns whereby commuters can have a fast and comfortable journey to and from work."

The Government now has powers in the new Transport Act to make grants towards the cost of fixed infrastructure of transport to benefit local transport. "And one of the types of project eligible which we are keenest on is the interchange car park at local railway stations, whether provided by local authorities or by private enterprise or the railways themselves."

Mr Marsh also said that he was getting more and more complaints about lorries and vans being parked overnight in towns, particularly in residential streets. There should be more lorry parks on the outskirts of our towns and cities. "If we get the bulk of our lorries gathered together in a place overnight where they can cause no offence to local residents we will have achieved something worthwhile in ordinary day-to-day living."

Hauliers, he said "would have to be induced to use the lorry parks and this meant providing them with good amenities and comfort, where a driver would be content to stay."