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the proposal, and a Committee of the Conference was appointed to
take the necessary steps to give effect to the resolution. This Council
concurred in the resolution passed at the Conference.
Heavy Traffic
on Tramway
Routes.
86. In September last the Council called the attention of the
London County Council to the obstruction to tramway
cars caused by heavily-laden vans and carts, and
suggested that steps should be taken with the view of slow traffic
being kept to the sides of the roads where tramways are laid. The
suggestion was adopted by a Committee of the London County Council,
who submitted to the Home Secretary a proposal for a draft bye-law
dealing with the matter for application throughout the County of
London. The Home Secretary was not, however, disposed to allow
a general bye-law. The County Council Committee are now in
communication with him as to the streets to which the proposed
bye-law should be applicable, and have expressed the opinion that
any list of streets which may be drawn up should include the streets
in which tramways are laid.
Fire-alarm
Indication.
87. The London County Council has been in communication with
the several Metropolitan Borough Councils with the
view of an uniform system being adopted throughout
London for indicating the position of fire-alarm posts. The replies of
the Borough Councils having been considered, the County Council
suggested that the County Council should supply the fire-alarm
indicators, and that the Borough Councils should fix them to the
lamp columns nearest the fire alarms, maintain and paint the indicators
as often as may be necessary, and paint the lamp columns red. For
some years past it has been the practice in this Borough to paint red the
lamp columns nearest fire-alarm posts. The Council has now decided
to also adopt the other suggestions of the County Council, which have
so far been agreed to by 15 of the Borough Councils in London.
Locomotives
on Highways.
88. The Conference of representatives of Metropolitan Local
Authorities convened by the London County Council
to consider the subject of the prop°sed restriction of
heavy locomotive traffic on streets within the County was held in
November last, when Councillors Wise and Parker (the Chairman
and Vice-Chairman, respectively, of the Highways Committee), and
Councillor Ling attended as the representatives of this Council. The
resolutions passed at the Conference are still under the consideration
of the London County Council.