Urban Motorways for London
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FOLLOWING the publication of phase two of the London Traffic Survey on Tuesday, the GLC's planning and communications and highways and traffic committees are to report that the results now enable them to adopt as a planning objective the creation in London of a primary road system of urban motorways. The committees have given instructions for investigations to continue into such a system with a basic orbital pattern having as essential elements three rings, including the urban motorway box around central London.
The report of phase two itself has paved the way to the third phase, now under way, and renamed the London Transportation Study. The report estimates that car ownership in the survey area (number of households owning cars) is likely to almost double between 1962 and 1981 and the most significant rise is likely to be in the inner suburbs.
It assumes that suburban bus services will decline in proportion to the local increase in car ownership, and the number of trips made by goods vehicles is likely to increase by threequarters, most of the additional trips being made by light vans.