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The Vestry adopted the report and ordered a copy to be
forwarded to the London County Council, Local Government
Board, Home Secretary, and the Vestries and District
Boards of the Metropolis.
The Council have not yet issued the revised Bye-laws,
and it is not known therefore to what extent the representations
made by the several Local Authorities have been
adopted.
OMNIBUS TRAFFIC.
In consequence of the obstruction and congestion of
traffic caused by the omnibuses at Piccadilly Circus, a
communication was addressed to the Superintendent of
Police, asking if the Police have authority, under the
existing powers vested in them, to divert any portion of the
omnibus traffic passing through the public thoroughfares.
The Superintendent replied that the Police had no power
to make regulations or interfere with the route of omnibuses
on ordinary occasions, but that they would still continue
to do their best to minimise, as far as their power would
permit, the inconvenience arising from the congested condition
of the traffic in the district alluded to.
CARNABY STREET.—ALTERATION OF
PASSAGEWAY.
In December last a communication was received from
the St. James's and Pall Mall Electric Light Company,
intimating that they wished to make a small extension to
their Central Station in Carnaby Street, and for this
purpose desired to alter the narrow passage which passed
through the Company's premises and leads from Carnaby
Street to Marlborough Row. To effect this the Company
proposed to construct a new passageway, 6 feet wide, in a