RAPID TRANSPORT

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 54, 5 March 1923, Page 8

RAPID TRANSPORT

BIG MOTOR-WAY MOOTED

LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM

ALL PEDESTRIANS BARRED.

(UNHID PRBSS ASSOCIATION.—COPMIGHT.)

UUiTRAUiN - HIW »lAU,N» CAtLI ASSOCIATION.)

(Received sth March, 2 p.m.)

LONDON, 4th March. The development of commercial motoring has reached a stage when interested people consider that the ordinary roads are antiquated, and that the only solutions to have their own roads, like railways. Financiers have approached the Ministry of Transport with plans to build a motor-way from London to Birmingham, 50 feet wide, with no gradient over 1 in 40. There will be no speed limits, and any.number of trailers will •be permitted. The total cost of 90 miles of roadway, including bridges, buildings, and land purchase, is estimated at £6,----500,000. The, promoters believe that transport charges would be reduced by from 25 to 30 per cent. A tax on tonnage would make the venture profitable. Only motor vehicles would be allowed on the road. Pedestrians would be parparticularly barred. Passenger vehicles would be welcomed. A schedule speed of from 30 to 50. miles per hour would be quite feasible. The Bcheme would be extended later to Manchester and Liverpool.