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parallel with, and not at right angles to the kerb, and that before fixing
the pillars and levers the County Council furnish the Borough Council with
detailed drawings and obtain its approval thereof.
(b) That drain rails be provided to the tramway track where
required by the Borough Council.
(c) That the whole of the carriageways outside the tramway rails
be paved with creosoted wood blocks and of the footpaths with artificial
stone at the cost of the County Council.
(d) That the County Council maintain at its own cost the whole
width of the carriageway in all cases where this is now done by that
Council as successor to the South London Tramways Company.
(e) That the widths of the footpaths be not reduced except in such
cases as the Borough Council approve.
(/) That in all cases a double line of tramways be constructed
throughout.
96. The Board of Trade and the County Council have been
acquainted with the Borough Council's views on the subject.
97. The question of the obstruction caused by certain of the
feeder pillars fixed by the London County Council on the footpath in the
road leading from Clapham to Tooting for controlling the various
sections of the electrical tramways there has continued to receive the
attention of this Council. At the suggestion of the County Council,
the officers of that Council and of the Borough Council met on the
ground with the view of some arrangement satisfactory to both
Councils being come to in the matter, and the County Council subsequently
submitted for approval a drawing of a smaller type of pillar
which it was proposed to substitute for the pillars to which the
Borough Council objected, viz.:— those opposite No. 130, High Street,
Clapham, the London and County Bank, No. 128, Balham High Road,
and Nos. 64-66, Upper Tooting Road, respectively, the new pillars to
be placed slightly nearer the edge of the kerb, so as to reduce the
widths of the footpaths as little as possible. The Borough Council,
however, did not see its way to agree to this proposal, and again
urged the County Council to shift the three pillars to positions where
less obstruction would be caused to the traffic. In reply, the County
Council stated that as the Borough Council had not accepted the
County Council's suggestions, no further steps would be taken for the
alteration of the pillars. In view of the position taken up by the
County Council, the Borough Council has decided to appeal to the
Board of Trade in the matter.