To the Editor of the "Nonra-Cursa Dattx New."
Sim,—The letter of "Locomotion" in your issue of to-day should§ be welcomed by your readers as opening up the very serious question of the present state of traffic regulation in Shanghai.
The approaching addition of trams to our thi fares makes it essential that should be bert rection of th assortment of vehicles of vary from motor to wheelbarrow, that daily makes the roads more dangerous.
Why do not the police show more firmness in their management of ricshas on the Maloo? This close of traffe entirely ignores their diree'ions and occupies smooth-metalled tramlines from Nanking Road to Dofoneo Creel the discomfiture of all faster vehicles. The arrest and fining of a few would do much good. As matters stand at present this road may be looked on as half the width it was before the tram lines came, for oe both sides ricshas refuse to use the rougher rosdwsy, With your correspondent I take no pleasure in cavilling at the police, for all residents in China know how bard it ie to get ignorant and obstinate natives to obey orders for the good of the greatest number. But that there is room for more energy and for im-L. provement la the distribution of competent men will, I think, be admitted by al To anyone in search of in-expe amusement I would recom. mond that he stand at the junction of the Nanking and Kiangse Roads. This important crossing is presided over by " Inkong sergeant, whose notion of traffic management is to collect vehicles I the Kiangse Road is choked for ahudred yards, Thoro is no correep nding closing of the Maloo to relieve the congestion and anon the rabble burets through by force of numbers and blocks the whole crossing.
In higher quarters too a little more consideration might well be shown for the convenience of the public, as ao instance of which it is surely "wanecostime when the Bubbling Well rendered impassable, that th street opening from the Race Course into the Burkill Rosd—the only alternate route—shonld be mined snd pontooned as well.
Prowling ricebas for which too many licences are issued, loaf everywhere, and bylthoir sudden turns and dashes when they sea possi most difficul All these are matters which cannot be altered in a day, and it would be well to take the better regulation of traffic in baud before trams come to add to the noisy confusion of the roads of this Settlement.
Tam, ote., aly 4.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.