To the Editor of the Norra-Cuixa Dairy News."
Sim,—While fully in sympathy with "Parent's" letter in your today's issue, it seems to me that it is not motors alone which need attention from the authorities responsible for the regulation of traffic within the Settlement area, Not only do the tramcars very frequent-Jy spin along the thoroughfares at far too great a specd'for the safety of those on the road (on foot or otherwise) or on the pavement, but ricsha coolies have a way of passing '80 close to one as almost to touch one's clothes with the whee', should one happen to be walking on the road. Coolies carrying loads on bamboos appear to be allowed full use of the pavement—frequently jostling our (and Chinese) womenfolk in such a way as to necessitate their stepping into the roadway, and the number of insolent young Chinese who—unlike the courteous o: lestial of but a few years ago—appear to consider it amusing to jostle Europeans (and others) on the sidewalks, s°ems to be increasing daily. The Palace Hotel corner is almost impossible to pass without being pestered by carriage toute, and a stop to perhaps Idok around one brings, anywhere in the Settlement, half-a-dozen very dirty ricsha coolies all clamouring for a fare—and impeding traffic in the road.
Carriages on The Bund, Maloo and other roads, driven usually natives with seemingly no know ledge of the way to drive, and imhued with the idea that they can remove any obstacle on the road by shouting at it, make a stroll, even after dark, almost perilous times, One notices fewer of these happenings on the road or pavement when there is a European constable about and keeping his eyes open, but the presence of an Indian ar Chinese policeman has, seemingly, no deterrent effect whatever.
It may be that our local authorities are fully alive to, and are doing their best to remedy, this state of affairs—difficult to handle as it must be admitted to be in an overcrowded area such as, Shanghai—but it is high time that annoyances of the description referred to above,
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