Canals as Roads.
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Sir J. A. F. Aspinall, formerly general manager of the Lancashire and Yorkehire Railway, touched upon a wide range of topics in )his James Forrest lecture on "Some, Post-war Problems of Transport." Referring to the proposal recently discussed for abandoning a portion of the Chesterfield Canal and using it for a motor marl 11 miles long, he pointed out that this method of utilizing properties now lying idle, or only slightly used, has many attractions from the point of view of the public, who want. their goods carried quickly. Great etretehes of welds laid on canal beds would be, he said, almost level, a gradient being repaired only at points where there are locks or low bridges. With motor traffic of all kinds on these roads, rapid communication would be substituted for the slow movement which is inseparable front water-borne traffic on narrow waterways.