Someone unquestionably ought to do something about horses. Unfortunately the
people who talk of doing anything about them are talking of doing the wrong thing. The L.C.C. tniks of taxing horse vehicles, for which there seems small justification, and the railway companies talk of making more use of them in the streets. Now the one thing to be done about horses so far as Central London is concerned—and I imagine it is the same with the business sections of other great cities,—is to keep them off the streets. Day after day in thoroughfares like Holborn and Gray's Inn Road you can see strings of 'buses and commercial and private cars trailing along at walking-pace behind some horse van taking up just too much room to allow traffic behind to pass and moving at a maximum speed of four miles an hour. Traffic problems will be insoluble till horse- traffic is banned from busy streets, or at any rate from busy and narrow streets, altogether. The railways at present make the chief contribution to the horse-van obstruction. * * * *
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