The main outlines of the Cambridge Town-Planning scheme were published
towards the end of last year ; but we have had to wait till this week for the exposition of the full details—which the University Press now provides in two admirably-produced quarto volumes. For every Cambridge man they are a fascinating study— no less volume 2 with its sixty maps than volume 1 with its full and reasoned explanation of the new proposals. The most arresting is, of course, the suggestion that Sidney Street, Bridge Street and Magdalene Street should be freed of all through Araffic by the erection of a barrier against all but foot-passengers at the North- ampton Street-Chesterton Lane end of Magdalene Street, and the construction of a new through route from St. Andrews Street, between Emmanuel and Christ's, curving round—considerably to the detriment of Jesus—to join the Huntingdon Road at the top of Castle Hill. This is plainly controversial. So, to a much smaller extent, is the proposed link between the Trumpington Road and the Madingley and Huntingdon Roads via an extended Chaucer Road, a new bridge across the river and the Barton and Grange Roads, or a new western road further out. 'But there is nothing controversial about the new Chesterton Bridge (to carry traffic from the Trumpington and Hills Roads to the Ely Road).for the Cambridge Town Council undertook to build the bridge by 1917 ; it has never been built yet. A comprehensive, far-sighted, courageous plan. How much of it will materialise—and when ? That depends primarily on the Town and County Councils. * * * *
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