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present Traffic, and probably lead to inconvenience
to the Shop Frontagers along its course, especially
in Rye Lane.
At its proposed commencement in the Peckham
High Street, it is intended to form a Loop, opposite
the "Kentish Drovers" P.H.—this Loop, where the
constant shifting of the Horses to and from the Cars
will take place, must necessarily lead to great inconvenience,
and in my opinion will very largely stultify
the advantages being provided by the Metropolitan
Improvements now in hand in that locality—the
necessity of this Loop arises from the fact of this
Scheme being promoted by an independent Company,
from that which now works the existing lines of
Tramway. I venture to suggest that an amalgamation
of interests, or at least an arrangement for
the continuous working of the new and old lines
would get over this difficulty; if this cannot be
accomplished, I think this part of the Scheme should
be opposed.
The next point requiring attention is the narrow
condition of Rye Lane. Commencing from Peckham
High Street, the widths of the Roadivay are as
follows: —
c