BRIDGE TO BE BUILT
MAMMOTH UNDERTAKING AT CHARING CROSS
COST OF £15,000,000 LONDON, Thursday. The House of Commons, by 230 votes to G2, 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 the London County Council. The measure was subjected to some criticism on the 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.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 903, 21 February 1930, Page 11
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