Holding the Pass
The people of Highgate, having made their Point unanimously and forcefully about the Ministry of Transport's scheme to turn Highgate Hill into a one-way endurance test for heavy traffic from the docks, are awaiting the final decision which Mr. Marples promised he would make early in the new session of Parliament. Tempers have cooled, although the will to resist Is strong. It is now unlikely, I gather, if the decision goes against Highgate, that the Hill Will be dynamited or blocked with barbed wire. I wouldn't put a sit-down past them, though, or the marshalling of a stage-army of children to form an endless procession over the zebra crossing right in the bottleneck. Mr. Marples Should remember how pride and panache always go together in hill-folk. He must beware of rousing the eastern spur of the Northern Heights.
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