Bridge Tests

at Wallasey • Thirty 24-ton lorries rumbled over two Wallasey bridges last weekend as part of a stringent safety check, costing .£10,000. The bridges are over the second Mersey......

By-pass Plans For Hgv

• Environment Secretary Mr Peter Walker is shortly to announce plans for by-passes to relieve towns which are on routes to ports from heavy goods vehicle traffic. It is......

In Westminster

No axle-loading change • Mr Peter Walker, the Environment Secretary, this week turned down a call for an amendment to the axle loading requirements for heavy goods vehicles.......

'loaded Question '

• Attacks on nationalized transport undertakings were causing dismay and upset among management and staff, said Mr Walter Johnson (Labour, Derby South). The staff of British......

Thc Winding Up

• Mr Walker told MPs this week that he hopes to introduce legislation early next year to wind up the Transport Holding Company and dispose of its subsidiaries. This was deplored......

Help For Disabled

• The Environment Department, together with the Association for the Disabled, is now preparing a circular about the problems met by the disabled when using buses. Announcing......

Concession Fares Policy

• If there were evidence of a general need for common policies about concessionary fares—and he accepted there might be—Mr Griffiths said his Department would be very willing to......

No Fuel Tax Cut

• The total amount of duty paid on hydrocarbon oil bought by road hauliers who transport other people's goods will probably be about L - 75m in the current financial year, said......