The immediate establishment of a Greater London Traffic Authority is
demanded by the House of Commons Committee, which issued its Report on Tuesday. Every Londoner knowe that the railways, tubes, trams, and omnibuses are unman fortably crowded in the early morning and in the evening. As the Daily Mail points out, the crowds will tend to be denser still when the shorter working-day becomes universal and artisans observe the same hours as clerks. The problem is to increase the facilities of travel in every possible way. The Committee speaks ominously of ass " authorized working scheme " which " would eliminate competition." We should have thought that competition—of new omnibus companies, for instance—was to be encouraged. The Progressives on the County Council failed to solve the problem because they wanted to penalize the omnibus services in the interest of the Council tramways. A new Traffic Authority whleh set out to eliminate competition would assuredly fail to satisfy the London traveller.
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