LONDON IMPROVEMENTS

Evening Star, Issue 19637, 17 August 1927, Page 6

LONDON IMPROVEMENTS

WIDENING THE STRAND NEW BRIDGE ACROSS THAMES. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, August 16. (Received August 17, at U ».m.) Several important road improvement! arc in progress im Loudon under tho direction of the Ministry of Transport.. Buildings which project into the Strand, forming an awkward bottleneck about midway down this famous thoroughfare, are being demolished. When completed the improvement, will give tho Strand a. uniform breadth, greatly facilitating traffic. The whole of Piccadilly, which run is westward Iroin Piccadilly Cii'eus, is being relaid, and new water, gas, and electricity mains installed. The workmen are engaged night and day in an endeavor to complete the task Iwlore the holiday season, which invariably lightens (lie volume of traffic in August, is over. Progress hitherto Im been rapid, and the contractors are reported to bo ill advance of the scheduled time. The second .section, «Inch is being coiiijnonccd 10-munw, jjcnjv'it.alos complete change in mutes of the westward traffic, and in order to facilitato this movement, the King has, ior the first time permitted buses ami heavy traffic to use the Mall, which leads from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace. Speeds are restricted im the Mall, which was not constructed to carrv such traffic.

AVork also began to-day on a new bridge, acres* Iho Thames, wiikh v, ill replace Ihe Lambeth loot bridge. It is estimated that, il will lake lour years to complete, and will w.-l about J-1,-OPU.i.W.