WATERLOO BRIDGE
[To the Editor of the Sencreiroa.]
Slit,—It would be of interest to know whether the traffic problems at the junction of Waterloo Bridge-head and the Strand involved in the removal of the bridge and its replace- ment by a broader bridge have been sufficiently taken into account. Attention has been drawn to this question by the " super-Strand " crossing embodied in the Charing Cross Bridge scheme, and it not unnaturally occurs to one to ask whether at the Waterloo Bridge crossing there could not be a " sub-Strand" evasion of the difficulty. The tramway in the present tunnel from the Embankment might be abolished and part of the tunnel be employed for ordinary traffic to emerge near the present exit in Kingsway.
Another question I would like to ask is, whether the advan- tages experienced elsewhere by the adoption of one-way traffic have been considered ? Kingsway at its south end terminates in the Aldwych segment. Along the western half of this segment trans-river traffic passes and is checked at the Strand. In view of this circumstance it is desirable to kniaw what difficulties would have to be overcome if another crossing of the Strand and the Thames from the eastern arc of Aldwych was made to carry south-bound traffic. Were such a project realized, the two arms of Aldwych, extended across the river and, so to speak, embracing Somerset House, would have a unique and magnificent effect.
Still another question. Could the existing Waterloo Bridge be made responsible for one-way traffic, such as it now bears, for a period to be determined, during which the founda- tions of three of-its piers could be examined It would appear that if such a procedure was adopted no time or money would be lost. Investigation of this nature is at all events desirable.—I am, Sir, &c.,
EDMOND L. WARRE.
12 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C. 2.
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