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The Company at once suggested a meeting between their
Engineers and the Vestry with a view to the joint consideration of
the clause, and a Sub-Committee was appointed to have such interview
with the Company. In the course of the interview a suggestion
was made that in lieu of the Company constructing a station at the
corner of Skipton Street and London Road, they should construct an
underground station at the end of St. George's Road and Newingtou
Butts, and construct subways to various points at the Elephant and
Castle so as to enable pedestrians to cross the roads without danger.
The matter is still under consideration.
london county council tramways bills.
In order to have power to reconstruct the tramways in various
parts of London, and to adapt them for electrical traction, the London
County Council introduced into Parliament two Tramway Bills—Bill
No. 1 dealing with reconstruction, and Bill No. 2 dealing with electrical
traction.
These Bills were considered by the various Vestries and District
Boards at a Conference held at the Clerkenwell Town Hall, on the 30th
January, 1900. As a result of the Conference, a deputation was appointed
to wait on the Highways Committee of the Council, and lay
before them certain provisions which were agreed to by the Conference.
The Highways Committee of the Council, however, refused to
accept many of the provisions which the local authorities thought
were absolutely necessary to the equitable working of the tramways
system on the roads maintained by the authorities, and in order to
protect the interest of this Yestry, petitions were directed to be
presented against both Bills. The principal point required in this
district was a provision to the effect that whenever a road along
which lines of tramways were laid was re-paved by the local authority,
the Council, as the tramway authority, should, at the same time,
re-lay the outer margins of the tramways at the cost of the Council,
with the same material as that used by the \estry.
Having in view the attitude taken up by the Council on this question,
in response to communications addressed to them by the Vestry,
the matter will, without doubt, have to be decided by a Parliamentary
Committee.