U.K. Lags Behind in Road Construction
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/TODERN highways to deal efficiently Pawith increasing industrial demands are being planned for several Western European countries, in an effort to overhaul their road systems before Marshall Aid ceases.
In Belgium. a ring-road around Brussels is projected foi construction from 1951-54, to link the city with a planned, or partly completed, network of highways. Routzs eastwards to the Ruhr are planned for the next four years, whilst a similar one will run north and south to Amsterdam and Paris. A priority extensiai for 1950 is the Brussels-Ostend road.
Roads planned and partly commenced in Germany during the war are to be completed with Marshall Aid. In 1943 there were 2,380 miles of motorway in Germany. At the end of 1949, a new motorway to connect Genoa and Switzerland was started, and will take Iwo' years to complete. Since the end of the war. 1,423 miles of new road have been built in Italy, whilst only 327 miles of motorway were constructed from 1924-1939.
Both Spain and the Netherlands have planned extensive road construction, and work is said to have begun in -Yugoslavia on a 240-mile east-west road from Belgrade to Zagreb.
Discussions are taking place in Amman, in Transjordan, concerning the construction of a 90-ft.-wide road running from Akaba to Amman and Baghdad RAIL FARE CUT: ROAD RECEIPTS STEADY
BRITISH RAILWAYS are "not disappointed " with the experiment that they started on January 1 of competing with bus services in County Durham by increasing to an hour the frequency of the Hetton-Sunderland rail service and reducing the fare to that charged on the buses for the same journey. The service was intended to be an experiment and 'there is a possibility that it will be suspended after May.
Bus undertakings affected state that they have suffered no fall in receipts or passengers since the introduction of the improved rail service.
LIGHTNESS IN THE HEAVY VEHICLE
ECONOMY and reliability are two of the advantages claimed for passenger vehicles using aluminium and its alloys in their construction. Containing information for the designer, bodybuilder and maintenance engineer, an introductory survey has been published by the Aluminium Development Association, entitled ." The Application of Aluminium and its Alloys to Passenger Road Service Vehicles."
Profusely illustrated, the booklet contains sections showing examples of many types of bus constructed of aluminium and its alloys, describing • briefly the commercial forms in which these materials are available and discussing, with comparative figures, their application to vehicle construction.
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