6 SEPTEMBER 1935, Page 6

The traffic census, the detailed results of which arc not

yet available, has, I see, brought to light the .fact that many of the new arterial roads are being neglected in favour of the old roads they were meant to supersede. That is undoubtedly true, and the same thing applies to the by-pass roads, some of which make so wide a detour that the experienced motdrist finds it much quicker to go straight through the by-passed town as before. Leather- head, where the circuitous by-pass is broken by a number of sharp-angled " roundabouts " is a case in point. It is hard to know what to do about it. A highway is a high-. way, and car-drivers can hardly be forbidden to use the old roads.