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88/—It being necessary to indicate by notices the stopping
places for the electric cars the County Council proposed that the
notices should be fixed to standards placed on the public footpath
at distances varying from 150 to 300 yards. As the notices
would have been unlighted and with the view of preventing as far
as possible any needless obstruction of the public way, the Council
declined to agree to this proposal, but suggested that a lamp (to
which the notices could be attached) should be erected at each
stopping place and offered to give facilities for the removal of
lamps where necessary and to maintain such lamps as parish
lamps. Upon further consideration the County Council decided
to adopt this suggestion and the re-arrangement of the lamps has
now been effected and the notices fixed.
89.—When the work of re-construction was nearing completion
a number of feeder pillars were placed on the footpath for the
purpose of controlling the various sections of the adjacent
conduit conductors. Several of these were fixed in most inconvenient
spots, causing considerable obstruction to the foot
traffic, and as this Council had not had proper notice of the proposal
the London County Council were asked to remove the pillars.
The County Council, however, Stated that the pillars were
essential, but promised that after the inauguration ceremony full
consideration would be given to the matter with the view of
meeting the wishes of this Council if possible. As the removal
of the pillars at that time would probably have interfered with
the ceremony they were allowed to remain temporarily. The
Council has since been in communication with the County Council
on the subject and it is hoped that some of the pillars will be
shortly shifted to positions where they will cause less obstruction
than at present.
90.—The re-constructed tramways were inspected on the 5th
May, 1903, by Colonel Yorke and Mr. Trotter (on behalf of the
Board of Trade). The Mayor and the Chairman and Vice-Chairman
of the Highways, Sewers, and Lighting Committee, accompanied
by the Town Clerk and the Surveyor for the Eastern District,
attended the inspection when the attention of the Inspectors
was called to the noise caused by the running of the cars; to the
obstruction caused by the feeder pillars and by the process 0f