LONDON “SUB=MEN”
Londoners may eventually develop mole-like characteristics if the pro* posals put forward by a leading civil engineer are ever adopted. This authority has outlined a scheme for solving London’s traffic problem by building an unlimited system of what he calls “sub-roads” beneath the city and its environs. Not the least interesting point about it is the suggested use of the excavated clay. Apparently this could be quickly converted into good building materials, and the tunnels or sub-roads successfully constructed with these instead of with the usual expensive cast-iron linings. This, it is claimed, would reduce the building costs by as much as 50 per cent, and the surplus materials could be sold. I
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 2
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115LONDON “SUB=MEN” Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 May 1938, Page 2
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