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bability it would not be possible for the proposed tramways to be
worked by electricity until the completion of the new generating
station at Greenwich the Borough Council has asked the County
Council to adopt horse traction along this route as a temporary
measure, especially in view of the fact that the cars on the York
Road lines with which the new tramway will connect are drawn by
horses.
117.—Complaint having been made by the Borough Council
and the Commissioner of Police of the obstruction caused by the
tramcars at the Tooting Terminus the County Council with the
view of providing improved terminal facilities has commenced the
extension of the Tooting lines to Tooting Broadway and also along
Defoe Road. The Board of Trade have approved the underground
conduit system of electrical traction for these short lengths
subject to reasonable arrangements as to feeder pillars. A suitable
position has been agreed for the one pillar at present required. In
the section in Tooting High Street the County Council with the
view of obtaining satisfactory results from the use of wood paving
between the tramway rails proposes to lay a short iength of track
with yokes of an improved and stronger type and paved experimentally
in 6 lengths of 50 feet each with the following materials,
viz.:—Jarrah untreated, Jarrah jodelited, beech creosoted, deal
creosoted, deal jodelited, and Aberdeen granite setts. In the
parts of the road where no widenings are being made the paving
of the margins of the carriageways and of the footpaths will be
carried out by the Borough Council at its own cost.
Electrical
Traction on
Tramways.
118.—With regard to the feeder pillars placed on the footpath
in the road leading from Clapham to Tooting
for the purpose of controlling the various sections of
the electrical tramways there, the County Council after considerable
correspondence, agreed to remove the pillar in High Street,
Clapham, to a less inconvenient position. The other pillars which
the Borough Council desired to be shifted were those opposite
Nos. 64 and 66, Upper Tooting Road and the London and County
Bank at No. 128, Balham High Road. In the first case the total
width of the footpath was 8 feet 4 inches and by the erection of
the pillar the width available for pedestrians has been reduced to
5 feet 3 inches. In the second case out of a total width of