§ LORD ERNEST BRUCEasked the First Commissioner of Works, Whether he will state what are the positive objections and defects in the plan proposed by himself last year to amend the traffic in the neighbourhood of Hyde Park Corner; whether the objections to these alterations now prove to be insuperable; and, whether therefore the proposed alterations 815 may be considered to be now finally abandoned; and, if so, whether any other plan for improving the traffic in that locality, which is yearly increasing, appears to him to be feasible?
LORD HENRY LENNOXIn answer to the noble Lord, with every desire to give him every information in my power, I fear that the ordinary limits of an Answer to a Parliamentary Question will prevent my stating in detail the objections which led to the abandonment of the Green Park Road scheme. My noble Friend next asks whether these objections were insuperable, and to that I have only to assure him that if I had not believed those objections to be insuperable I should not of my own unbiased judgment have relinquished a scheme which I had myself devised and hoped would add to the convenience of the inhabitants of London. The third paragraph refers to my future action in this matter, and bearing in mind the confessions of failure I have so recently made at this Table, I do hope my noble Friend will not expect or ask me to burden myself with any more pledges respecting it at the present time.