'MOTORWAYS ARE BUILT TO HELP INDUSTRY'
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AREMINDER that motorways were built primarily to meet the industrial needs of Britain and not for private car traffic was given by Mr. R. Clifford, a vice-chairman of the Road Haulage Association, at the annual dinner of the Association's Yorkshire (Sheffield) area last week.
Mr. Clifford said that leading politicians of all parties were now well aware of the indispensable and valuable part which road goods transport played in the life of the community.
It was useful to make this point from time to time and not only in advance of a general election. The public in general and the motoring public in particular could too easily slip into the illusion that commercial traffic, instead of being the most important, as in fact it was, could conveniently be made subordinate to other road users.
The plans to restrict the use of the third lane on motorways provided a good example, said Mr. Clifford. The RHA had agreed to support an experiment on these lines in the interests of road safety in general and perhaps also because no operator liked to think that his vehicles were being driven at speeds for which they were not perhaps designed.