LONDON’S BRIDGES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18499, 21 February 1930, Page 9

LONDON’S BRIDGES.

CHARING CROSS PROPOSAL. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received February 20. 6.55 p.m.) LONDON, February 20. The House of Commons, by 230 votes to 62, carried the second reading of a Bill permitting the erection of the Charing Cross Bridge, at a cost of £15,000,000, which is to be shared between the State and the London County Council. The measure was subjected to some criticism on the ground that big suburban railway systems should be run underground, leaving the South London bank of the Thames for the development of business and dwelling houses, on normal lines of sound town planning. Sir Martin Conway urged that a square mile, south of the river, should be a splendid centre, comparable with Regent Street and Piccadilly, with great through routes, relieving the pressure on the Strand. The cost of the whole improvement could be paid by increasing site value. London members generally approved of the proposal, emphasising that it would abolish the slum area and rehouse thousands of poor workers in better conditions. Mr Herbert Morrison (Minister of Transport) announced that the experts of the Ministry of Transport approved of the scheme.