OVERGROWN LONDON.
PROBLEMS OF MANAGEMENT, London is getting so. big that, itt is* becoming unmanageable. Seven million people live within its> postal area, and outside that areat are many more who work m London but. live by night over its borders. . In all, probably 2,000,000 people-are moving m and out and across the, city t and outlying business sti'aets I twice a day,' ehieiiy between the. hours of 8 and 10 m the morning and. 5, and 7 m the evening. But its trains, tubes, trams, and 'buses were not planned to carry, all tliese pedple m such a few hours and so there is crowding, confusion- . disappointment, "and grumbjing, which, all become woi'Be as time passes and' congestion grows. What' seems certain -is that; Jjondbn will go on increasing m population, and the difficulty of moving about during the crowded hours will become greater. Yet #11 the . while there is of land m London that might be built on, leaving space for- open-air recreation, and much of tlie in-and-out travel might be rendered unnecsesary. .
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9540, 20 June 1921, Page 8
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176OVERGROWN LONDON. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9540, 20 June 1921, Page 8
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