Motorists Must Pay for Parking
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THE motorist would have to meet the I cost of off-street parking when new regulations came into force. This was made clear by Mr. Ernest Marples. Minister of Transport, in London last week. He was opening a car-parking exhibition sponsored by the British Road Federation at the Institution of Civil Engineers.
The Minister emphasized that the purpose of streets was to keep traffic moving: today they were being misused as private garages. Regulations to remove
street blockages would present private enterprise and local authorities with the chance to provide the off-street parking facilities.
Most of the exhibits arc models of existing or planned garages, both in this country and overseas. Broadly, they illustrate two distinct types of installation, the ramp parking system and the automatic system, More than 120 garages of roof-top, underground and multi-storey types are modelled or illustrated.
TJ•ii exhibition closes tomorrow.