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The L.C.C., for instance, will certainly not agree to a

mere reconstruction of Waterloo Bridge unless there is a positive guarantee that the Charing Cross. scheme will be undertaken concurrently. The number of motor vehicles in the London streets increases day by day, and a few years hence the approachei to the bridges will be impassable unless something is done quickly. When the Royal Commission was appointed, Lord Lee, its Chairman, was asked to produce his Report in a hurry. He did so. But since then there has been a kind of lethargy. No doubt one plausible explanation after another has been given for postponing a final decision, but in the aggregate the explanations do not excuse the temporizing.

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