UNDERGROUND ROADS
PROPOSAL FOR LONDON. COST OF £120,000.000. A proposal to build 1200 miles of steel-lined roadways underneath London was outlined by Mr R. R. Stokes. M.P. for Ipswich. Suffolk. His plan is for the contraction of roads 60ft below the surface and connected with ground level by means of spiral roadways on which cars could travel. The scheme, it is claimed, would give adequate shelter for the whole of London’s population at a cost of £120,000.000. “Underground roads 15ft in diameter and properly concreted would cost £lOO,OOO a mile, but the whole of the money spent would go to provide materials and employment,” said Mr Stokes.
“Such roads, built under the surface, would solve London’s traffic problem and would prove an asset in peace time. In a national emergency they would form bomb-proof shelters for millions of people.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 2
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139UNDERGROUND ROADS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 2
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