* * * * There are, according to an official
Ministry of Transport report. 27,000 level crossings on the railways of Great Britain, and they are (I suppose with the growth of motor traffic) becoming an Increasing danger. The number, no doubt, exaggerates the danger, for a large proportion of. the 27.000 are on farm-tracks or very unimportant and little-used roads. But on principal roads level crossings are not merely a danger but an intolerable nuisance, being responsible between them for the loss of a good many hundred man-hours per day. This, of course, is not the only country that suffers ; France, to take our nearest neighbour, is full of level-crossings. It is no great matter, particularly in open country, to up-grade a road and carry it across a railway on a bridge, or alternatively to take it under the railway. Figures showing how many level-crossings have been done away with in the last half-dozen years would be instructive. Very well under a hundred. I should imagine.
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