The question of the control of London road traffic was
debated at great length in the London County Council on Tuesday, when Sir John Benn took occasion to declare the Progressive policy. This amounted to a claim that the London County Council should be the Traffic Board for London. He dis- claimed any hostility to the motor omnibus, and personally would regard the introduction of a rate on any form of loco- motion as a misfortune, but the present condition of things was bringing complaints from every quarter, and there was a natural cry of " rate the motor omnibuses." Sir John Benn was very effectively answered by Mr. Cyril Jackson, leaderof the Municipal Reformers, who vigorously repudia ted the suggestion that their policy was "up with the motor omnibuses and down with the tramways." No one in that party wished to give the motor omnibus undertaking an unfair advantage, but as far as it was going to be useful for London transit they were not going to interfere with it.
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