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73- In view of the danger to the public arising from motor
vehicles being driven at a high rate of speed along Roehampton
Lane, Putney, between Upper Richmond Road and Portsmouth
Road, the London County Council asked the Local Government
Board to make a regulation prescribing a maximum speed not
exceeding 10 miles an hour for motor cars in that thoroughfare.
The application is now under the consideration of the Local
Government Board.
74. The work of constructing the tramways in Lower Richmond
Road and across Putney Bridge to Hammer-
smith, authorized by the London County Council
(Tramways and Improvements) Acts, 1902 and 1908, has been
completed. The lines, which are worked on the overhead trolley"
system of electric traction, were inspected by the Board of Tradt
and opened for traffic in January last.
Putney to
Hammersmith
Tramways.
75. The tramways in Queen's Road, Clapham and Battersea,
having been reconstructed for the underground conduit
system of electric traction, the lines were inspected
by the Board of Trade and re-opened for traffic in January
last.
Queen's Road
Tramways.
76. Arrangements having' been made with the County Council.
as to the reconstruction for electric traction of the
tramways in Wandsworth Road and East Hill, and
the widening and re-paving of those roads in connection therewith,
and the Board of Trade having approved the system of traction
(underground conduit) proposed to be adopted, the works
were put in hand in January last, and are still in progress. Under
the agreement which was entered into with the London County
Council the property required for the widenings is being acquired
by the County Council, and that Council is executing the whole
of the paving works. The agreement also provides that the
Borough Council shall relieve the County Council of the obligation
to maintain any portion of the carriageway except the part
between the tramway rails and margins 18 in. in width outside the
rails, an allowance being made by the County Council in respect
of this relief; and that the Borough Council shall contribute onethird
of the cost of the improvement and of the paving works
outside the tramway area, less the above-mentioned allowance, the
Borough Council's contribution being limited to the sum of
£9,273.
Wandsworth
Road and East
Hill Tramways.