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consent thereto, in consequence of the western end of Vigo
Street being too narrow to admit of vehicular traffic.
The Vestry thereupon suggested to the County Council
the desirability of powers being sought from Parliament for
the compulsory removal of obstructive posts, in such cases
as the Local Authority may deem it advisable, and the
Council replied that the subject was under consideration.
OBSTRUCTIONS TO TRAFFIC.
Complaints have been received during the year of the
obstruction to pedestrian traffic caused by public vehicles
standing in Piccadilly, close to the Circus, to set down and
take up passengers. The Vestry have called the attention
of the Police to the matter, and suggested that the vacant
paved space at the entrance to Shaftesbury Avenue might be
used for omnibuses going east as a place for setting down
and taking up passengers, and that vehicles going west
might be required to draw up in front of the Geological
Museum and the Church, and thus in some degree reduce
the pressure at the Circus.
The Police, however, have not seen their way to adopt this
suggestion.
Another source of complaint is the almost continuous
delivery and collection of parcels and goods at the Railway
Receiving Houses in Regent Street. To meet this difficulty
the Vestry suggested to the London County Council and to
the Government the advisability of extending the provisions
of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, so as to further
restrict the delivery of goods in specified streets.