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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Blackwall Tunnel (redirect from Thames Tunnel (Blackwall) Act 1887)
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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Bus deregulation in Great Britain (section London)
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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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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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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First MacDonald ministry (redirect from 1924 Labour Government)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dartford Crossing (redirect from Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988)
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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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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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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Southern Railway (UK) (redirect from Southern Railway Act 1924)
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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Frank Pick (category Alumni of the University of London)
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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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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Induced demand (redirect from Induced traffic)
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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