The HiOhways of Greater London The - Minister of Transport is
to be congratulated on
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taking a first practical step towards solving the immense problem of the transport-planning of Greater London. He has shown his appreciation of the real nature of the problem by appointing Sir Edwin LutYens to act as consultant to Mr. Bressey, whose task it is to prepare a comprehensive survey of the highway deVelopments required_ during the next twenty or thirty years. For whilst Mr. Bressey is an expert' on transport, Sir Edwin is an expert .on town-planning, and it is of the essence of the problem of the traffic of this great area that town- planning, and communications should be studied together as twin parts of a single question. The local authorities, as Mr. Herbert Morrison has not been slow to point out, have their own responsibilities and in some cases their own plans. They should co-operate, not oppose. The report, when it is completed, should be regarded as the basis of action which the Ministry of Health (and the local authorities) will take in conjunction with the Ministry of Transport.
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