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London County Council (Tramways and improvements).
37. This Bill proposes to authorise the County Council to lay
down and maintain tramways in various parts of
London.
The proposed tramways in this Borough are
No. 8, to form a junction between the existing- tramways in High
Street and Mitcham Road, on the north-eastern side of the Broadway,
Tooting; and No. 9, from the termination of the existing
tramway opposite the Tate Public Library along Streatham High
Road to the County Boundary at Norbury.
38. The Bill would authorise the County Council to adopt a
system of overhead electrical traction for working the tramway
from Hammersmith across Putney Brdige to Lower Richmond
Road, authorised by the London County Council (Tramways and
Improvements) Act, 1902.
39. The Bill would also authorise the widening of Streatham
High Road, on the western side north of Stanthorpe Road, and
the increasing of the width of the carriageways at certain points
in Tooting High Street, the Broadway, Mitcham Road, and at
Streatham High Road, by reducing the width of footpaths to not
less than 6 feet. The Councils of the Boroughs where the works
are to be carried out (including Wandsworth) are to respectively
contribute one-third of the cost of the widenings.
40. Clause 20 would authorise the County Council to acquire
the land and premises lying between and adjoining High Street,
Wandsworth, York Road, Ram Square, and the Town Hall, and
to stop up and appropriate part of the roadway of Ram Square.
41. This Council was of opinion that before the proposed
junction at High Street and Mitcham Road, Tooting, was constructed
the road there should be widened so as to provide a space
of 9 feet 6 inches between the kerb and the tramway rail and a
footpath of not less than 9 feet in width. A Clause was subsequently
agreed with the County Council for insertion in the Bill
providing that, if at any time after the opening for traffic of the
junction line in question this Council should determine that its
working was a source of public danger, this Council might make
representations upon the matter to the Board of Trade, and that
If such Board upheld the representations of the Borough Council
the County Council should either discontinue the use of the junc-