LONDON TRAFFIC.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16823, 23 August 1920, Page 7

LONDON TRAFFIC.

A SERIOUS PROBLEM. LONDON, May 8. London’s traffic problem, which is, if anything, more serious than that of New York, has been made “difficult,” it is announced by a parliamentary committee of investigation, by the eight-hour day. The committee has been considering the subject for some time. Traffic congestion is severest, the committee found, between the hours of 7.30 and 9 a.m. ; and 5 and 7 p.m. It reaches its maximum between the lat-. ter hours, and “little or no relief can be looked for in the near future from any increase of the transport facilities during those hours.” Regarding the trouble as accentuated by the general adoption of the eighthour day, tho committee expressed the opinion that “if certain 'allied’ businesses could arrange for tho majority of their employees to leave their work between 4 ans 4.43 p.m. instead of at 5 p.m. or lifter, appreciable benefit would result.” It appeals to business houses to co-oporate in this direction, and asks shoppers to do as much of their shopping as they can manage to do between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.'