CHARING GROSS BRIDGE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20495, 21 February 1930, Page 13

CHARING GROSS BRIDGE.

GREAT LONDON CAUSEWAY.

NEW STRUCTURE PROPOSED.

SUM OF £15,000,000 INVOLVED.

DISCUSSION BY COMMONS.

By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received February 20, 5.35 p.m.) • LONDON. Feb. CO. The House of Commons, by 230 votes to 62, carried the second reading of a bill to permit of the erection of a new Charing Cross bridge at a cost of £15,000,000, to be shared between the State and tho London County Council. The measure was subjected to some criticism on tho ground that the big suburban railway systems should be run under ground leaving the south London bank of the Thames for the development of business and dwelling houses on the normal lines of sound town planning. Sir Martin Conway, Conservative member for the English Universities, urged that a square mile south of the river should be made into a splendid centre comparable with Regent Street or Piccadilly, with great through routes to relieve the pressure on the Strand. The cost of the whole improvement could be paid by the increased value of sites. London members generally approved the proposal. They said it would abolish the slum area and rehouse thousands of poor workers in better conditions. Mr. Herbert Morrison, Minister of Transport, said experts of his department approved the scheme.