Dormitories for Motorists Motels,' which in America offer the traveller
self-contained, one-storey overnight accommodation for himself and his car, are as yet almost unknown in this country. The project, which is now afoot, for opening a number of them seems to me of questionable merit. Too much of our small country is already under concrete and a motel represents an exceptionally uneconomic use of space, as must any form of housing com • posed of isolated units in which everyone lives on the ground floor. If they do come, however, motels may bring home to the planners the hitherto neglected necessity of designing staging-posts as an integral part of trunk roads. There are few more squalid sights than the average `good pull-up' roa( • side caKt, on the miry space in front of which the heavy lorries are forced, for lack of any alternative, to congregate.
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