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construct a tramway from Clapham Common to the County boundary
in Kingston Road, forwarded plan of the proposed scheme, and
asked whether the Borough Council would be prepared to give its
consent to the construction of the proposed tramway and to contribute
one-third of the nett cost (£278,500) of the necessary street
widenings. The Borough Council decided to approve of the route
of the proposed tramway, subject to such conditions as might be
hereafter settled by the Borough Council with respect to the
scheme, but that as the Battersea Authority was to pay one-sixth
only of the nett cost of the widenings in connection with the part
of the scheme in that Borough it saw no reason why a larger contribution
should be required from this Council; and was of opinion
that the tramways should be a double line, the road being widened
to not less than 54 feet throughout. Provisions to authorise the
construction of the proposed tramway were included in the Tramways
and Improvements Bill, but after further correspondence the
scheme was withdrawn.
Tramway
across Putney
Bridge.
27.—The only other proposed tramway in this Borough included
in the County Council's Tramways and Improvements
Bill was a tramway on Putney Bridge in
continuation of a proposed tramway along Queen
Street, Fulham Palace Road, and High Street, Fulham, terminating
in Lower Richmond Road, Putney, at a point about 1 }/2 chains
south-west of Putney Bridge. This Council objected to the tramway
proposed to be constructed in this Borough on the ground that
Putney Bridge was too narrow and that the curve into Lower
Richmond Road would constitute a public danger, but the Committee
of the House of Commons passed this portion of the Bill,
subject to the County Council giving up a piece of land on the
north side of Lower Richmond Road for the purpose of widening
the public way there. Having regard to the inconvenience to traffic
which would be caused during the construction of the tramway
across the bridge an undertaking was obtained from the County
Council that the work would be proceeded with continuously by
day and night and completed within two months from its commencement,
and that neither the bridge nor approach thereto should
be closed for either vehicular or pedestrian traffic during the
construction of the tramway.