§ 8. Sir R. Russellasked the Minister of Transport if she will introduce legislation to empower her to have the traffic signals in one-way streets in London synchronised so that traffic does not get stopped at every signal in succession.
§ Mr. SwinglerHighway authorities already have this power, and it is the normal practice to link signals controlling one-way traffic systems.
§ Sir R. RussellIs the hon. Gentleman aware that they sometimes go wrong? Will he make representations to the Greater London Council, which, I think, is the highways authority concerned, to see that these signals are maintained and work properly?
§ Mr. SwinglerIf the hon. Gentleman will let me have details of any which he knows not to be properly synchronised, we shall make representations to the G.L.C., or any other authority, as required.
§ Mr. Ian LloydThe hon. Gentleman must realise that the great majority of one-way streets in our major cities have no such synchronised signals and nothing like the green way principle as applied in them. Will he make much more strenuous efforts to apply much more modern techniques much more urgently?
§ Mr. SwinglerWe have no evidence to support the hon. Gentleman's assertion. A lot of time has been spent on 1693 this, especially in London. If he will give me evidence of places where signal synchronisation is required but is not being applied, we shall go into it at once.