MOTOR TRAFFIC AND THE ROADS.
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Szn,—An improvement of our road system is the greatest need of to-day, and, incidentally, the best way of lessening unemployment. You speak of the congestion of traffic in towns. Please look at another aspect : the destruction of all peace and comfort in what ought to be rural villages. I cannot exaggerate the noise and danger all along this road, running from London to the Midlands. There is no peace day or night, Sunday or weekday. Commercial vehicles lumber along, shaking the houses as they go ; immense lorries that ought not to be on a public road. In this village house- holders cannot sleep in their front rooms and by day one cannot hear one's own voice. If the Minister of Transport would spend a few week-ends in villages along the main roads he would realize that for the peace and happiness of the country all this heavy motor traffic should be diverted to roads made for it alone. As they are, our roads are death-traps at their worst and nerve-destruction agencies at their best.
Will Lord Montagu of Beaulieu come to the aid of rural
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