Author: TRIPP H Alker
Title: Town Planning and Road Traffic.
Description: London, Edward Arnold, 1942 (1946 reprint) 118pp, large fold-out at end and incl 34 text figs. Fwd by Patrick Abercrombie. 22x15, blue cloth, text covered dw. Ex-lib with stamp and label on fep, cloth nice and bright, dw chipped somewhat, contents good. Wartime attempt to tackle the thorny problem of traffic. Author was head of traffic control at Scotland Yard. Section on cyclists makes for interesting reading: the official view is that accidents involving a cyclist were usually the cyclist's fault, a view that has proved very difficult to shift to the present day despite ample evidence to the contrary.

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