§ Mr. WALKERasked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of Recommendation XXIV. of the Royal Commission on Transport that they cannot support any scheme which would involve the expenditure of very large additional sums of public money on the provision of new arterial roads, he will consider the necessity of a concentrated programme for the elimination of level-crossings by bridges and tunnels?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONI am fully alive to the desirability of the elimination of level-crossings, but the initiation of such schemes is a matter which must rest with the highway authorities concerned, who are well aware that grants of 75 per cent. of the net cost falling upon the highway authority are available from the Road Fund towards carry-1644W ing out approved works of this nature. All the influence at my command is exercised to encourage and assist local authorities in this work.