Nothing new - Safety, congestion and one-way streets
Apprentices were bound, the Queen's service arranged; children's safety, noise, congestion and parking were covered. When 'Carremen meeting one another in narrowe streetes…are so churlish to one another as that they will not make waye', their answer was the one way street.
But hard times came in 1597 and the Carmen fell out with their friends; the woodmongers saw their chance and formed a Company in 1605, to regulate Carmen, who promptly rebelled. Petition, lawsuit, hearings in Star Chamber and public disorder retrieved their freedom, but the Woodmongers still ruled the transport roost.
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