COMING BACK the other Sunday evening on the Maidstone road
from the Kent coast, I was pleased to note that there was no traffic jam through Swanley. I gather that this is due to the beneficent activities of the Ministry of Trans- port's traffic adviser, Mr. Alex Samuels. At the top of Swanley High Street stand traffic lights, which used to be set to operate equally each way. The only snag in this arrangement was that the road from Maidstone is usually jammed with traffic, while the one crossing it has little or none. Mr. Samuels has now made the sensible suggestion that the lights should be altered in favour of the main stream. Fair enough, but what I should like to know what were the Kent police thinking of all these years that such a simple idea had to be imposed on them from outside? Or is it possible that they were not thinking at all?
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