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I meetings continues to be made. Interesting data were forthcoming from those on January 15 and 17. That held on January 15 was concerned with the Shoreditch zone (Group 12). Mr. J. H. Brebner, chief public relations officer, London Transport, said that the zone was particularly important,as it had four gateways through which mint pass. a substantial proportion of the 350.000 people who entered the City of London between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. and left between 430 p.m. and 7 p.m.
Between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m., 92,000 people passed through this zone towards the City and they returned between 4.30 p.m. and 7 p.m. About 43,000 were carried by road services. In the morning 24,000 were carried between 745 a.m. and 9 a.m., the maximum movement in any period of 15 minutes being between 7.45 a.m. and 8 a.m. In the evening, 27,000 road passengers were carried between 5 p.m. and 6.15 p.m. and the maximum was between 5.30 p.m. and 5.45 p.m., although the 15-minute periods did not vary much. In the evening, 30-minute delays in waiting for buses were not uncommon.
The meeting on January 17 was for Central London Group 7 (Kensington and Chelsea). Mr. G. F. Sinclair, deputy general manager (road services), London Transport, said that the area must be surveyed as a whole and unless some 20 per cent, of the workers who now finished between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. were willing to finish before or after that time, the problem would not be solved.
The cause of the delay in the zone could be carried back to the deniands at Piccadilly, where the peak began at 5 p.m. •.r The worst conditions in the area were on the sOuth-bound services, where trouble arose from heavy loadings of buses on leaving Sloane Square en route to Battersea.