LONDON'S TRAFFIC PROBLEM SIR,—If Samuel Johnson lived today I fancy
that he would support any proposal to abolish the street lamp post, even if he did not notice the traffic problem!
Recently it took me an hour to go by bus from Piccadilly to Oxford Circus and I wondered why lamp standards with their attendant islands were still tolerated when a clear flow is desired for traffic. I noticed that an ambulance car, which could have threaded its way through, was blocked by one of these obstructions which, incidentally, it partly demolished.
Surely, some of the money now being spent on luxury building could cater for the pedes- trian backbone of the country and help to pro- vide subways and light steel bridges across the busier streets. The latter could be artistically designed on the style of the triumphal arches so admired for the Coronation. — Yours faithfully, D. WYLOW 26 Clifton Gardens, Folkestone, Kent TITANIC DISASTER
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