GREAT MOTOR-WAY SCHEME

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXI, Issue 22, 24 January 1924, Page 7

GREAT MOTOR-WAY SCHEME

LONDON TO MANCHESTER. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, chairman of the company promoting the Northern and Western Motor-way, explained at Newcastlcmnder-Lyne to representatives of the Staffordshire County Council details of the scheme to construct a great trunk road from London to Manchester, running close by the principal pottery towns. He emphasised that one of the objects in this scheme was to provide employment by using labour in a thoroughly remunerative sense, as the road is intended to be self-supporting. Driving in England was rapidly outgrowing the roads, but during the enormous development of the last century no new trunk road had been built. The proposed new motor-way would be ■lO feet wide, allowing for four lines of through traffic. Two lines in the centre would be for fast vehicles and two on the outside for slow and heavy traffic. There would be no toll-gate on the road except at each entrance and on side roads running into the motor-way. By an ingenious electrical arrangement they would be able largely to eliminate toll-men by a device corresponding to automatic slot machines. It was intended that the traffic on the road should pay for its upkeep, A resolution supporting the scheme was unanimously passed.