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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 804, 20 January 1903, Page 4

LON DOM'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM. The overcrowding in (lie streets of London Ims become so intolerable (hat, the (iovernment has decided to appoint a Royal Commission to consider the improvement of the traffic. The trouble about the London streets is that, whereas they were built for a population of about lialt-a-inillion they have to accommodate nowadays somethin;; I'ihe eight million people. The result is that” the world's metropolis, according to a London paper, is “ the slowest city on earth for general motion, outside of Pekin.” The London County Council, which is the chief authority for street widening, has done what it can lo remedy the congestion. In eleven years, street improvements have cost the Council £6,000,000, over and above all returns from the sale of property acquired. The new Strand-Holborn thoroughfare alone cost £-1,862,000, but of this amount, it is said, over £-1,000.000 will he recovered. “ The improvement- of London transit. - ’ the Daily Mail remarks, “is mainly a question of cost. Fifty millions would go but part of the way, and to incur this expenditure would double jdja total debt of London.”-