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TRAMWAYS—WEST INDIA DOCK ROAD & BURDETT ROAD.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company being of
arranging for the cars running to Victoria Park to start from the
West India Docks and pass throgh the west India Dock Road
direct to Mile End Road and Victoria Park, instead Of standing at
the south end of Burdett Road as before, and to discontinue the
service from West India Docks to Aldgate, applied to the Board for
their consent to the proposal, stating that they were prepared to enter
into an arrangement as to a revision of fares and otherwise as might
be acceptable to the Board. The 24th Section of the North Metropolitan
Tramways Art, 1884, provides that the line of tramway between the
West India Dock Road and Burdett Road should not be used without
the previous consent in writing of the Road Authority, under their
common seal, and such user was subject to conditions and restrictions
as might be specified therein by that Authority. As directed by the
Board, I put myself in communication with the Manager of the
Tramways Company, with a view to arranging for the adoption of
penny fares for short distances, and in the result the Board gave
the consent required, subject to certain conditions and restrictions
as to fares and otherwise.
NORTH METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS PROVISIONAL ORDER.
The North Metropolitan Tramways Company deposited plans
for the construction of a tramway from the junction of the proposed
tramway in Commercial Street. Whitechapel, and passing thence
into and along Leman Street and Dock Street and terminating in
the latter street at or near the south end thereof, the principal
portion of the tramway being in the Whitechapel District, and a
very short length in the Limehouse district. I was directed to
negociate with the Tramways Company, with a view to the insertion
in the Order of Clauses for the protection of the District. which
were agreed to by the Tramways Company, and inserted in the Order.
HYDE PARK CORNER (NEW STREETS) BILL.
The attention of the Board was called to the alterations made
in the Hyde Park Corner (New Streets) Bill, as sent up from the
House of Commons by the Committee of the House of Lords, by
which alterations it was proposed to make the Metropolitan Board
of Works contribute towards the maintenance of street in the
Parishes of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and St.George Hanover Square,
and a circular letter from the Clerk to the Vestry of Islington,
forwarding copy letter addressed by that Vestry to the Members of
Parliament for the Borough of Islington was read. The Board
directed that a letter be addressed to the Members of Parliament