ROAD IMPROVEMENTS
EXTENSIVE PORT OF LONDON PLAN. £1,500,000 SCHEME ANNOUNCED. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5 p.m. Rugby, Oct. 16. A scheme for the extensive replanning of the approaches to the vast system of docks at the Port of London is announced by the Ministry of Transport. London is the biggest and busiest port in the world and, although £16,000,000 has been spent in the last 25 years on the docks, roads leading to them have not kept pace with these improvements and enlargements. Under the present scheme, which will cost £1,500,000, new roads are to be made and existing roads widened and improved. Ten bridges will be, reconstructed or eliminated and a system of viaducts to obviate delays at level crossings inaugurated. Some of this work has already begun. The cost is to be spread between the Transport Ministry, the Port of London Authority, the London County Council and five other local authorities.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1934, Page 5
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