On Thursday, October 18th, the City of London Corporation by
a large majority reopened the subject of the proposed St. Paul's Bridge.- The week before they had rejected a report of the Bridge House Estates Committee recommending the building of a bridge. This is not really contradictory though it seems to be. The scheme which was rejected was a familiar scheme so modified as to provide for a northern approach by means of viaducts. These viaducts would have obstructed the view of the Cathedral from the east, and, apparently, would also have introduced new traffic difficulties. The rejection did not, however, destroy all idea of a St. Paul's Bridge. The vote on Thursday, October 18th, was an instruction to the Bridge House Estates Committee to produce yet another plan. Bridges are so necessary for the future that every scheme is worthy of Sympathetic consideration, but all the evidence available so far has convinced us that a bridge at St. Paul's would be less well placed than almost anywhere else, and that it would be either an inconvenience or a danger to the Cathedral.
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