We regret to record that on Tuesday the House of
Lords threw out the Bill providing for tramways across Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges and along the Embankment by a majority of 31 (64 to 33). Considering the Report of the Traffic Commission and the pressing need for cheap locomo- tion from North to South, this decision is greatly to be deplored. Personally, for a variety of reasons, we should very greatly prefer to see the Embankment remain as it is, but we are convinced that it is impossible to deny that great thoroughfare to tramways without a serious injury to the comfort and convenience of the poorer classes. When it is remembered that the City of London came to an agree- ment with the County Council in the matter of the bridges, and that there is a very strong feeling in London in favour of the scheme, we cannot think the action of the Lords wise. It will certainly not increase the confidence of the working classes in the Upper House.
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