HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 83, 19 November 1928, Page 5

HEAVY TRAFFIC FEES

REGULATION OBJECTED TO. CONFERENCE TO' RE HELTS. At Saturday's meeting of the Stratford County Council the following letter from Mr F. W. Furkert, En-gineer-in-Chief Publia Works Department, was received: As you are aware, there has been a movement on. foot for some time, promoted by ftib/o owners of 3ieavyl vehicles, with the; object of inducing the Government to. discontinue the regulation chich authorises local authorities to fcbhrge heavy traffic license fees. In order that the matter may be properly considered at a conference which is toi be held, in the New Yealr, I would h© glad to have a-state-ment from you of the amount that you have received each year since the heavy Uraffio regulations dapfe into foWSff, together with, a short indication of th« uses to which the money has been put. I would! he glad ta receive any information which may be available as to the conclusions that your Council or your staff have come to as to whether the damage caused to th c . roadg, by the heavy vehicles lis great/eir than tlhat wihidhj would be caused by a 1 number of ordinary motor cars nßing the same amount of petrol. Also, T would like to know whether any heavier class of construction has-'Wn adopted thhn have been adopted had there been no vehicles with a laden weight in excess of, sav, three: tons. The JcliaiiMua.n__said objection wa's taken to the regulation bv owners of Ifeht trucks who just came under the regulation. Some County rate* nnvers hadi'-TMit trucks to carry their'mific to the factory. Cr. Murray shid the light trucks would) cut up Th«' roads less than, a heavy h'orsel waggon. Or. O'Neill said the chief damage wa s done by heavy lorries with solid tyres.

Tn reply try the chairman the Clerk stated that ilast lyeiar V lO "Qwums'M received £4/50 from hehvy traffic fee*. Tfc was decided that the information asked fcr Be supplied, as far as possible. The chairman said the money received had been spent' in geiueral maintenance.