§ EARL FORTESCUEasked Her Majesty's Government, Whether, pending the larger remedial measures which it has been announced are again to be deferred for another year, the First Commissioner of Works intends adopting any temporary expedients to diminish somewhat during the present Session the highly inconvenient block of vehicles at Hyde Park Corner? He repeated that the plan he had suggested, when he brought the matter before their Lordships on a previous occasion, and which would make room for an additional line of vehicles, would not be very expensive.
THE DUKE OF RICHMOND AND GORDONsaid, the circumstances of this case had in no manner changed since his noble Friend at the head of the Government replied to the same Question when put to him by the noble Earl about a month ago. He could only repeat what his noble Friend said on that occasion. A large measure for dealing with the traffic at Hyde Park Corner could not be undertaken this year; and, in the meantime, it was not thought advisable to incur the large expense which a temporary and incomplete one would inevitably involve.