The Minister of Transport denounced people who parked their cars in London streets as violators of the King's highway. He was opening the new Cumberland garage and car park in Bryanston Street, AV., which is claimed to be the most modern in the world. Tile garage has five parking floors, each divided into two half floors, and 20,000 tons of concrete were used in its construction. “The capital value of the land surface occupied by a single stationary motor coach in London,” said the Minister, “Is £40,000, and in the case of a private car it is £20,000. This will show the ordinary owner the enormous burden he places on the community when he uses the highway not for a passage but for a parking place. A street, if it is to be used as a garage, is indeed the most expensive garage in the world.”
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 11
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146Untitled Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 101, 23 January 1935, Page 11
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