Snap Plom for Piccadilly
SIR,—It was pleasing to read in your pages on August 12 Terence Bendixson's views on increasing the traffic capacity at Piccadilly Circus.
Surely it is time that the road system in London was planned to take a given volume of traffic and traffic kept to this level by parking controls or a road pricing system. Might not the existing road pat- tern be a good point at which to freeze the volume capacity, bearing in mind that improvements by nature generate more traffic?
Given- such a freeze on road building, improve- ments and traffic management schemes, buildings with an economically useful life, valuable land, build- ings of historical and architectural interest and quiet residential areas could be saved; this would be in addition to the avoidance of such costly planning failures as the St Giles Circus and Euston Under- pass schemes (pointed out by Peter Hall in his SPEC- TATOR article 'The Slow Progress of Buchanan' on August 7, 1964).
The millions saved might be successfully spent on boosting the ailing public transport system.
R. G. A. NEWTON
Smallbridge Hall. Mires, Suffolk
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