§ 58. Sir CHARLES OMANasked the Minister of Transport whether he will 420 take measures to secure that pedestrians may cross Piccadilly with reasonable security for life and limb at some other point than the existing subterranean passage at Piccadilly Circus, the only point where such crossing is at present possible; and whether he will adopt the idea of a second subterranean passage somewhere in the neighbourhood of Down Street, Albemarle Street, or Bond Street?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONRefuges are available in Piccadilly at frequent intervals for the protection of pedestrians; and, under the London Electric Railway Act passed this Session, a subway is to be constructed across Piccadilly in connection with the re-construction of Dover Street Station.
§ Sir C. OMANWould it surprise the Minister of Transport to know that a refuge is no good if a line of omnibuses and more especially chars-a-bancs, one touching another, extend the whole way from the Royal Academy to Piccadilly Circus? Refuges are then extremely interesting objects, but quite inaccessible, and my experience only last week shows—