§ Mr. HOUSTONasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that motor omnibuses, instead of being driven within the prescribed twelve-mile limit, are frequently driven at twenty miles per hour through the streets of London, and that taxi-cabs and other mechanically-propelled vehicles, instead of being driven within the limit of twenty miles per hour, are sometimes driven at thirty to forty miles 1523W per hour in the London area; and whether, with a view to prevent accidents, he will give instructions to the police to rigidly enforce the prescribed speed limits of twelve and twenty miles per hour, respectively, within an area of six miles from Charing Cross.
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI think that the speed limits are rarely exceeded by motor omnibuses and taxi-cabs in the streets of London. When the police have evidence that motor vehicles have contravened the law proceedings are taken. There is, however, very great difficulty in timing cars, so as to procure the necessary evidence of a contravention of the speed limit in the congested traffic of inner London.