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Diversion to Canals ?

10th August 1962, Page 38
10th August 1962
Page 38
Page 38, 10th August 1962 — Diversion to Canals ?
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JAR. MARPLES did not appear to find vi• much merit in the suggestion, made in the Commons, that a development of the country's inland waterways would relieve the pressure of commercial traffic on the roads.

He pointed out to the M.P. who put forward the idea, Mr. Philip Noel-Baker (Labour, Derby South), that in general the Bowes Committee of Inquiry into Inland Waterways did not accept suggestions made to them that diverting heavy commercial traffic to revitalized inland waterways would greatly diminish congestion on the roads.

Some traffic, he added, might well, however, be attracted to the nationalized waterways as a result of the £6m. programme of necessary improvements,