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Traffic Board upon the lines indicated in the report of the Royal
Commission. The Council has recently again had the proposal
under consideration in connection with a resolution passed by the
Paddington Borough Council asking the London County Council
to take steps to promote the appointment of the proposed Traffic
Board, and decided to support the action of the Paddington
Borough Council in the matter.
102. A Conference of representatives of City and Borough
Councils was convened by the Hammersmith
Motor Traffic. Borough Council in March last, on the subject of
motor traffic in London, but this Council did not take part in it.
The subject was further considered in June last, in connection
with a letter from the Highways Protection League, and the following
resolution was passed by the Council and a copy forwarded
to the Home Secretary and to the Commissioner of
Police, viz. :—
That this Council is of opinion that, owing to the increasing number
of accidents caused by motor traffic in the County of London, the maximum
speed of all motor vehicles should bo reduced to, at most, 12 miles
an hour ; and, owing to the serious annoyance and discomfort caused by
excessive noise, vibration, etc., the police should be granted enlarged
powers to control this class of traffic.
103. A letter has since been received from the Poplar Borough
Council, calling attention to the excessive speed at which motors
are driven in the metropolis, and to the accidents which have
already occurred, expressing the opinion that combined action
should be taken by the Metropolitan Borough Councils, and inviting
the Council to appoint three delegates to attend a Conference
to consider the question. The Council appointed Alderman Robinson
and Councillors Taylor and Sir Frederick Lance as its representatives.
The proposed Conference has not yet been held.
104. During recent years numerous applications have been
Telephone received from the Post Office Authorities for permission
to carry wires, mostly for telephone purposes,
along streets in this Borough. The Council has so far
made it a practice to require these wires to be laid underground,
except in special cases. In several instances which occurred
during the past year, however, the Post Office Authorities did not
see their way to place the wires underground nor, where overhead
lines were agreed to by the Council, to use iron poles. Previously,