Londoners are becoming seriously concerned over the continual street upheavals that have been occurring recently. It Is becoming quite a. commonplace incident for a water main to burst and flood a whole district, or for a gas main to ex lode, causing deaths and injuries. Were these explosion floods merely.
Phenomena, no one would care very much, but'now that they are becoming almost_a feature of our ally London life, people are hesinning to make serious inquiries into their cause and the possibilities of having the resulting danger and inconvenience removed. The follow: ug list of recent upheavals shows that there are very real grounds for concern.
London itself has grown up without plan or design into its preseat con: fusion of winding streets and blind alleys, so its underground pipes and wires have been laid in a completely haphazard manner, Reorganization, of course, would be so enormously costly, and would cause such protracted disorganization of tariffic, that It is almost out of the question, Dut, until it perts anticipate a conti and perhaps a steady increase in the number of these upheavals.
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