THE LONDON TRAFFIC COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS.
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The first annual report of the London end' Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee for the year 1925 (that committee being appointed under the London Traffic Act of 1924) has just been issued and is a record of useful investigation, ;because in the first year of the committee's operation little could be done beyond examining proposals which had already faced the various road authorities and which aimed at effecting improvements in traffic conditions in various parts of London.
Recommendations were made to the Minister of Transport by the sub-committee, but practically in no instance is it suggested that any of the major schemes should go forward at the moment because of the excessive costs.
These major schemes include :—(1) An improved means of access by road to the Victoria and Albert docks, which at present are approached through a series of mean streets ; (2) the Lower Thames Tunnel scheme which would link Purfleet on the north side with the
improved Watling Street and the Dartford by-pass ; (3) a subway under Piccadilly connecting Berkeley Square with the Mall ; (4) the mitigation of traffic at Aldgate arising from the existence of a hay market and a number of costermongers' stalls in a narrow thoroughfare ; (5) the proposed widening of Kensington High Street ; and (6) the suggested new road which would provide an alternative to the Broadway and Ring Street, Hammersmith.
The report is issued by 1131. Stationery Office at the cost of Zs. 6d.