Replanning Greater London The Bressey Report on Highway Development in
Greater London was notable among other things for the state of muddle it revealed. The need is urgent, we have large resources of labour among the unemployed and yet six months after the report's appearance nothing has been done. Sir Charles himself, in his presidential inaugural address to the Chartered Surveyors Institution on Monday, questioned whether the complex administrative m2rhine of Greater London could be successfully adapted to the task of con- structing entirely new highways. Probably not. Each of the public bodies involved will agree that comprehensive measures are essential, and none will be prepared to take the initiative or indeed accept any scheme which benefits their own locality only incidentally. Sir Charles thinks the solution will have to be a simpler, ad hoc, organisation created specially for the purpose. The effect of this might be to complicate rather than simplify. It should not be beyond the resources of the Ministry of Transport to provide the co-ordinating authority which could give the Bressey Report effect. * * * *
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