In Tuesday's Times Sir Reginald Blomfield wrote a letter defending
the present plan of widening Waterloo Bridge as necessary and as by no means " vandalistic," since the present appearance would be, in the main, preserved. He states categorically that a bridge between Waterloo and Blackfriars would be useless, and that the Charing Cross scheme, of which he implies he is, in principle, an advocate, will take too long to mature to relieve the present congestion and the instability of Waterloo Bridge. On Wednesday, Mr. A. T. Taylor, of the L.C.C., wrote and pointed out that however many new bridges were built, nothing would save Waterloo Bridge from falling into the river, if it was not entirely taken down and re-erected. When this was being done, it seemed a thousand pities not to widen it sufficiently to meet the needs of modern traffic.
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