Everyone who has to go from the West-End of London
to the City must take a very active personal interest in the widening of the Strand which is now going on. When the scheme has been completed the street will be some eighty feet wider along its whole length. What this will mean to traffic acceleration, and indeed to the whole efficiency of London communications, everyone who uses the Strand will realise. Already much has been done. In a few weeks the whole middle part of the Strand from Wellington Street to the west end of the new Tivoli Cinema will have been widened—that is, the whole, except for one offending block of shops (numbers 73-75) which juts out at the corner of John Street. Almost any evening at six o'clock one may see a whole queue of 'buses held up by this obstruction— only able to trickle past one by one. Naturally one supposed that this block would be the next thing to be removed. What, then, was the Strand user's horror when the other day he observed that part of it was being repainted and repaired !
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