The Archive · 1923

STANDING TRAMS AND MOTOR-CARS

To the Editor of the "Nortx-Cama Dairy News."

Sir,—Police supervision appears to be conspicuous by its absence in the matter of "Traffic Control" by the police authorities in the French Concession.

It is more an exception than the rule for motor-cars to stop, or slow down, when passengers are boarding or leaving the tram-cars at the various tram-steps.

Several times within the last fort. night, dangerous accidents have only been avoided by considerable "gymnastic efforts' on the part of the unfortunate tramway passenger.

Time and time again, I have witnessed motor-ars scattering groups of people who had just alighted from the cars, It ig undeniably unfair to force passengers to scramble out of the way of motor-cars driven deliberately at a crowd, as appears to be done at times, and it is a positive danger to school-children, and those who are no Jonger young nor active, and who by no fault of their own, are subjected to risks which in my opinion, could and should be made impossible by adequate and systematic supervision, I am, eto,

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