Traffic Congestion in London
No Population Increase After Seven-year Period IMPROVED PLANNING NEEDED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Thursday, 6.30 p.m. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Feb. 16. The opinion that tho solution of traffic congestion in London did not depend on a restriction of the growth of the metropolis but on a proper distribution of population and industry was expressed by Mr. Frank Pick, vicechairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, at a meeting of the Royal Commission on the geographical distribution of industrial population. He said London’s population would cease to expand within seven years. A population of 12,000,000 would eventually be required to support the Transport Board’s undertaking as against the 9,700,000 in its area now. London could not become fully developed beyond 12 or 15 miles from the centre. He considered that the ill effects of the concentration of population could be remedied by improved planning and that a restriction of industrial growth would tend to create London’s owr special areas.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 41, 18 February 1938, Page 6
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