To the Editor of the 4
"Nonrs-Omixa Day News."
Sm,—Most people will undoubtedly say yes; and motif one takes the trouble to watch the traffic in our foroign-frequented roads, it will be seen how much may bedene to render our roads ample for all purposes, by an efficient control of vehicles with their varying speeds.
the sole exception of the Nanking road, there is no control whatever, for wheelbarrows, handcarts, and empty rioshas pursue their own sweet way, unchecked, and usually in the middle of the road, with the result that an over. taking trap or carriage is blocked until the obstructive barrow or cart is moved to the kerb. A handcart with its attendant six coolies takes up as much room as two carriages, yot it never occurs to the police to compel the former to keep to the kerb, and leave the ides. If this an enforced there would be no obsteucti all; unfortunately our police are not instructed, or their duties in this respect. It is a common thing to 00 a wheelbarrow loaded up with poles or wood, the figure of a large " A," taking ite throo-fourths of the road, blocking it to that extent, and inoreasing the difficulty of trafic in both directions. No wonder the cry is ever for increasing width, but let the police regulate the traffic by compelling the slow-moving vehicles to hoop to. the xb, the roads will then be found wide ough, and the enormous expenditure by the Municipal Council in acquiring land will be largely obviated.
Tamete,
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