To the Editor of the "Nortu-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—With reference to the schedule of the motor bus routes approved by the Council published in to-day's Municipal Gazette, one hopes that this question will be exhaustively considered before definite permission is granted by the Council for these public vehicles to use the roads. I venture to suggest some considerations which occur to me:—
The London motor-bus driver is probably the finest driver of his kind in the world, but he is working amid a traffic that is almost wholly motor traction, and amongst a people who are thoroughly accustomed to the "rule of the road."
Query—tTrafiic here is of an entirely different character and most varied, the populace have no idea of the rule of the road" and scarcely any disposition to acquire it, and the streets are already congested during the busy hours of the day. Chinese driv—ers of motor vehicles do not compare with London drivers, except unfavourably. Is Shanghai therefore a suitable place for public motor buses, apart from outlying roads which are not subject to congestion 7
(2) Experience has shown in London, where the road beds and foundations are naturally deeper than Shanghai roads, and where the abutting houses and buildings are more strongly built than the corresponding buildings in Shanghai, that the vibration caused by constant traffic of passenger buses and heavy motor lorries has done much harm to the fabric of many houses.
I have in mind a particular instance in Pembridge Villas, Bays-water, which is the road connecting Notting Hill Gate with Westbourne
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