16 OCTOBER 1869, Page 2

London Bridge is choked with the traffic on it, and

the City Council has been considering and rejecting all manner of expen- sive proposals for widening it. Foot passengers especially suffer. They are often in danger, and as Mr. M'George pointed out, the balustrades being solid, the bridge is a dust-trap in good weather, and a ditch in bad. Will the Builder tell us if there is any final reason why a bridge like London Bridge should not have a second story put on it—a wooden bridge like a railway crossing, sup- ported on iron pillars let into the buttresses, and reserved for pedestrians ? No work in water would be necessary for that, and cabs would gain the space now occupied by the trottoirs. Must such a second story be too ugly for human endurance?