Show Tho Congestion of London Sir 7 Wolfe Barry made a moat Interesting In-teresting speech on the congestion of London Ho believes that the retardation retarda-tion of business tralfic between tho east and west more especially coal traffic costs the trade Interests of London Lon-don 11160000 a year the owners of vehicles ve-hicles f 11S9000 and pedestrians 63000 or a total of 2150000 a year This ho would correct by cutting a single mighty street 125 feetwide and five and onehalf miles long from west to cast and this with Its subsidiary connections connec-tions would coat GUiO000 This had been ridiculed whuil originally proposed pro-posed but when the loss was fully understood un-derstood it would bo found that timesaving time-saving fairly repaid the cost Time arterial ar-terial street Is we fear a brilliant tlreum for ihc present but If London advances for twenty years ns it has done for time past twenty something very like it will have to bo constructed We wonden If It would bo quite Imnos t Bible on the great lines to construct underground un-derground line confining their use to time conveyance of goods That would enable UH to pass u laws which would relievo London more thmamm aumy new opemmingsnurnely H law Insistimig tilat nil vehicles In inotion simitll travel an equal speed We always speak ojl the ° stream of London traffic btmtit lg the absence of streamlnesH whjfh produces the fretting delays that ta1fl4 year from the life of every active ugfnA London Spectator |