BUSY ROADS

Evening Post, Issue 37, 12 August 1936, Page 10

BUSY ROADS

CHANGES IN BRITAIN

DOUBLE CARRIAGE WAYS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 12, 2 p.m.) * RUGBY, August 11. The Kingston Bypass, a nine-mile stretch on the London-Portsmouth Road, one of the first of the great bypasses to be constructed on roads out of London spon after the war, is to be reconstructed. The road, which cost £4,000,000 and took four years to build, has, since it came into use in 1927, acquired a bad reputation for accidents. The proposal is to reconstruct it with a dual carriage-way separated by a central reserve. The lighting will also be improved. The work, which will begin on a two-mile section west of'Surbiton, will be put in hand immediately. The great increase of traffic has necessitated the rebuilding of a number of comparatively new roads and dual carriage-ways are a growing feature of these reconstructions. The number has grown so rapidly that the Ministry of Transport is issuing special instructions regarding their use in order to secure uniform observance of one-way working of each of the two carriage-ways. The recent decision of the Government to place trunk roads under the central authority of the Ministry of Transport will facilitate the measures of modernisation such as the plan for the Kingston Bypass. The urgency of the matter is emphasised by the number of new motor vehicles registered each month. The figures for June, at 38,536, were more than 6000 in excess of June last year.