§ MR. BOULTON (Huntingdonshire, Ramsey)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if his attention has been called to the danger to the public arising from the fast motor 1373 traffic, on the Embankment and to the apparent futility of appeals to Government Departments to cheek the excessive speed of cars; and if he will give the necessary instructions to have policemen stationed on point duty at intervals along the roadway to insure that at such points at any rate pedestrians can make the attempt to cross the Embankment under the protection of a constable.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The Commissioner of Police is endeavouring to secure the provision of more refuges on the Embankment, but he docs not think the volume of traffic there is so heavy as to justify the stationing of a number of constables for the purpose suggested. I am having inquiry made, and will inform my hon. friend if I find any further steps are necessary and practicable.