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    The London Traffic Act 1924 (14 & 15 Geo.5, C. 34) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The purpose of the Act was stated to be the facilitating...
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    strategic functions. The London Traffic Act 1924 was a result of the commission. Reform of local government in the County of London and its environs was next...
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  • traffic within the... London Traffic Area..." The committee was created, along with the Traffic Area, by the London Traffic Act 1924. The membership was...
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    Debates (Hansard). 5 July 1939. Retrieved 26 June 2013. "London Traffic Act 1924". The London Gazette. No. 38037. 1 August 1947. p. 3683. "Blackwall Tunnel...
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    (5,140 km2). The LPTA overlapped with the London Traffic Area (LTA) defined by the London Traffic Act 1924 and the part of the LPTA that was within the...
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    of parliament by the railway and bus industries, the Road Traffic Act 1930 established Traffic Commissioners who had the oversight of safety, as well as...
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    system of route numbering on London buses came into force under The London Traffic Act 1924. This gave the Metropolitan Police responsibility for bus operation...
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    The London Traffic Area was established by the London Traffic Act 1924 to regulate the increasing amount of motor traffic in the London area. The LTA...
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    central London since Roman times. The current crossing, which opened to traffic in 1973, is a box girder bridge built from concrete and steel. It replaced...
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  • United Kingdom, which met from 8 January 1924 until 9 October 1924. Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict. c. 47) The first session...
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  • bus crisis" of 1924, where Tramway workers led UERL, and the LGOC workers on a London-wide strike over pay. The London Traffic Act 1924 was rapidly passed...
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    Workmen's Compensation (Silicosis) Act 1924 while the London Traffic Act 1924, which provided for the regulation of London traffic, regulated privately owned...
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    Palace. On 1 December 1924, a new system of route numbering on London buses came into force under the London Traffic Act 1924. As a result, the short...
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    in 1921. On 1 December 1924, a new system of route numbering on London Buses came into force under the London Traffic Act 1924. Route 38 was unchanged;...
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  • Stevensons of Uttoxeter just before the implementation of the Transport Act 1985. Stevensons was taken over in 1994 by British Bus, who in turn became...
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    authorities in their own right. The London Traffic Area and the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, set up in 1924, were abolished, with the GLC...
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  • passenger transport authorities (PTAs) were established by the Transport Act 1968. The PTEs were local authority bodies responsible for running transport...
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    Left-hand traffic (LHT) and right-hand traffic (RHT) are the practices, in bidirectional traffic, of keeping to the left side and to the right side of...
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    BET/UER monopoly for customers on London's streets. The independents would be outlawed by the London Traffic Act 1924, which limited bus operations to...
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    through the tunnels at a steady speed. Section 5 of the 1884 Act specified that: The traffic of the subway shall be worked by ... the system of the Patent...
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    The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in...
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    century. The London and North Western Railway". The Engineer: 319–321. 19 September 1924. "The Importance of Passenger Traffic". London and North Western...
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    Home counties (category Geography of London)
    Hertfordshire, Kent and Surrey. 1924: The London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee, covering the London Traffic Area: London, Middlesex, and parts of...
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  • problem and their longer distance traffic was growing. It was hoped the new line would divert some of the "inner" London traffic away releasing much needed capacity...
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    manage traffic. The next nearest vehicle crossings to the west of Dartford are the Woolwich Ferry and the Blackwall Tunnel, both well within East London. When...
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    capital. The London Traffic Act 1924 granted their request by establishing the London Traffic Area to regulate road passenger traffic within London and the...
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    The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) was a British railway company. It was formed on 1 January 1923 under the Railways Act 1921, which required...
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    Arrow and the Night Ferry (London–Paris and Brussels). The West Country services were dominated by lucrative summer holiday traffic and included named trains...
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    The Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It sets out how road networks should be managed by local authorities...
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    Verrazano Narrows Bridge. J. J. Leeming, a British road-traffic engineer and county surveyor between 1924 and 1964, described the phenomenon in his 1969 book...
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