LONDON’S ROADS.
UNDERGROUND AND OVERHEAD LONDON. October 22. Lord. Montagu of Beaulieu, who is a civil engineer, and -vice-president of the Royal Automobile Club, giving evidence before the Traffic Commission pointed out that the prohibitive cost prevented the widening of London thoroughfares. He suggested overhead viaducts to connect the important centres like Tottenham Court Rfoad and the Elephant and Castle corner. He also proposed underground roads and motor parks, the abolition of trauiears, the introduction of larger six-wheeled motor buses, a minimum speed in main, streets of 10 miles an hour. He said horses .should he banned from the main thoroughfares in the daytime, and that pedestrians should cross them bv escalators.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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112LONDON’S ROADS. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 2 November 1926, Page 9
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