LONDON TRAFFIC.
SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT. SPEED LIMITS. "Times' — 'Sydney.'flim' Special 'Cables^ '>■.■■ i *'< (Received Angus]? 16., 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 15.,,' The Select Parliamentary Committee on the London traffic problem lias reported, in favour of the simplification of, control. The report states that the journeys undertaken by passengers in Greater /London total.two thousand million yearly. It recommends that the solo control be vested in a special traffic branch of the Board of Trade, tho County Council having power to proscribe the routes And time-tables and the number of public vehicles allowed on the streets, eubjeot to the confirmation by the Traffic Board. . ' " _ The report reebmmends special speed limits for motor traffic where the conditions are specially dangerous;.also more refuges on the-streets, nnd closer control by the police. The omnibus companies strongly oppose the recommendations.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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133LONDON TRAFFIC. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 18 August 1913, Page 5
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