§ SIR HENRY PEEKasked the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, in regard to the new street to be formed between Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street, in connection with the completion of the Inner Circle of the Metropolitan Railway, What stops, if any, are proposed to be taken to prevent the inconvenience certain to be caused by the increase of traffic in Eastcheap, which as the main thoroughfare westward from the London and Saint Katharine Docks, the Royal Mint, the Tower of London, and the Trinity House, is already overcrowded, and will be the reverse of relieved by the proposed new street?
SIR JAMES HOGGIn answer, Sir, to the Question of my hon. Friend, I beg to state that no steps are proposed to be taken by the Metropolitan Board of Works with regard to Eastcheap. The Board do not agree with my hon. Friend with regard to the increase of traffic which he anticipates in that thoroughfare. On the contrary, they consider that the new street, 60 feet wide from Gracechurch Street to Fenchurch Street, and the proposed railway, when completed, will tend much to relieve the block in that neighbourhood.