LONDON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 13

LONDON TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

Mr. Asquitb accorded a sympathetic reception to two deputations which waited upon him urging the necessity of some central authority to control the laying out of the new roads in connection with the problem of town-planning in Greater London. "There is a lamentable defioienGy, of arterial roads leading from London through the careless and slovenly ruanner in which the suburbs have been planned and laid out in the past," cays the Daily Mail. "No care was taken to carry the roads through or to make the planning of one district fit in with that of its neighbours. The result is congestion of traffic and immense inconvenience to the population of the capital. Nor is the outlook for the future bright so long as some eighty different local bodies are permitted to do what is right in their own eyes, with entire disregard for* thd good* of the whole city. fl "All doubt as to the necessity and urgency of the matter was removed," says the Morning Post, "by the report of the Traffic Commission, which showed how quickly London is drifting into strangulation. To prevent that miswill, in any case, cost millions. But every year's delay increases those inevitable millions."