27 OCTOBER 1928, Page 15

A MAIN ROAD PROBLEM.

This fact indicates what everyone has begun to see that to-day, when a road traveller can pass through a half-score of counties in a morning, some authority wider in scope even than a county council must take a hand. For this reason it is a welcome sign that Colonel Ashley, on behalf of the Ministry of Transport, has taken sympathetic consultation with the Roads Beautifying and the Roads of Remembrance Associations. The initial fault for the desecration of the thoroughfares lay with the Ministry of Transport, or its founders. If a wider frontage had been retained, it would automatically have preserved beauty ; and quite certainly in the sequel it would have brought good dividends. * * * *