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BIGGER ROAD UPKEEP GRANTS? I N a letter to Lord Derwent, chairman

9th January 1959, Page 53
9th January 1959
Page 53
Page 53, 9th January 1959 — BIGGER ROAD UPKEEP GRANTS? I N a letter to Lord Derwent, chairman
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

of the British Road Federation, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, has given an assurance that he is not opposed to increasing grants for road maintenance. Only once—in 1957-58—say the Federation, has the real value of the Government grant been anything more than that of the years immediately before the war. The roads today are carrying 250 per cent, more traffic than they were in 1939. A recent statement by the Secretary of State for Scotland, that additional maintenance work to the value of £300,000 has been authorized for this year, may be a sign, the Ba.F. believe, that with the brake off Government expenditure, the present year may see a scale of grants bearing some relation to the need.