LONDON TRAFFIC PROBLEM
RESTRICTED GROWTH OPPOSED PROPER DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION URGED (British Official Wireless) (Received February 17, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, February 17. The opinion that the solution of traffic congestion in London did not depend on restriction of the growth of the metropolis, but on the proper .distribution of population and industry was expressed by Mr Frank Pick, vicechairman of the London Passenger Transport Board, at a meeting of tne Royal Commission on the Geographical Distribution of Industrial Population. Mr Pick said London’s population would cease to expand within seven years. A population of 12,000,000 would eventually be required to support the board’s undertaking, against 9,700,000 in its area now. London could not become fully developed beyond 12 or 15 miles from its centre. Mr Pick considered that the illeffects of concentration of population ‘could be remedied by improved planning and that restriction of industrial growth would tend to create London’s own “special areas.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23437, 18 February 1938, Page 5
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