LONDON PROBLEMS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3090, 12 January 1909, Page 4

LONDON PROBLEMS.

London is being taught, through Ita pocket, the folly of putting off schemes of street improvement. It is fifty years since the widening of Fleet Street was first proposed. Since then, while the traffic has increased enormously, the cheme of improvement has merely been nibbled at, until the other day, when a proposal to finish the widening at a coat of £500,000 was carried. This sum is to be paid for the setting Pack of thirty-four premises, so that the street may have a width of 60 feet. If the whole work had been done 50 years ago, an enormous saving would have been effected. For instance, a shop that was sold fifty years ago for £1,250 has since changed hands eight times, and on the last occasion realised £IO,OOO. The traffic problem of London is becoming more serious every day. Inner London is becoming more and more a workshop, and Outer London more and more a dormitory, and the millions who work in

the heart of the city and sleep in the suburhs must be brought to their work in the morning and taken hoine at night. The Board of Trade believe that the solution lies in tramways. Given wide roads there is no reason why people should not he carried quickly and comfortably to and from their homas eight or ten miles out of the city.