MOTORING
The Bressey Plan Rejected Although the full results of the Bressey scheme for solving the problem of Greater London traffic were ngt to be achieved until the next generation, it came as a great disappointment to everybody who realises the gravity of the situation to learn that the L.C.C. have decided against adop- tion of the most urgent schemes in the report. The grounds, too great cost, must naturally be given due weight at a time when every available penny of public money must be spent on armaments. For the next few years bombers will be of far greater importance than dual carriage-ways. None the less the recommendations were so practical as well as far-seeing that it is a thousand pities that they could not have been used as a basis at least for the re-planning which must be under- taken sooner or later. It may be, of course, that the rejection is not final and that the scheme may be reconsidered when prosperity returns, but time is of the essence of all road-build- ing (as many of our now useless " new " by-passes proclaim), and a delay of a few years may well put the whole plan out of date.
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