Now that the widening of the Bund is progressing rapidly towar{s completion, it is time that we should speak of the parking arrangements that this widening is destined to afford. Roughly speaking, there will be a series of ranks ex: tending from the Public Gardens to Avenue Edward VII situated io the middle of a very broad thoroughfare which will thus be divided ince one roadway on which cars and trams will run and another for carriages etc., though it has not yet been specifically stated that this division will be made, in whiz event there will be two excellent roads running the whole length of the Bund.
Sufficient parking state has been secured to relieve the congestion of the various roads, running between Szechuen Road and the Bund, the sides of which are in practically every case lined with stationary cars to the lessening of the available space for moving vehicles. The total number of cars to be found lined up along the side of roads in the Central District must be many hundreds, and the rank to be seen daily outside the Shanghai Club during the tiffin hour should serve to give some idea of the appearance the Bund will present when the new Parking accommodation becomes available.
It is to be hoped that when all arrangements are carried out the Municipal Police will forbid any ears remaining stationary for long period either in the side streets or in Nanking Road, especially in places only a reasonable distance from the Bund. It would tend to make driving in the Central District very much less of a strain on the driver and give greater latitude for mancuvring than exists at present.
Osuy a Rattarive, The whole question of traffic congestion in the Central district will be by no gneans solved with the altered Bund. It will be, after all, but an amelioration of present con: ditions and will in no wise tend to improve conditions with regard to moving traffic. That, very natuzally, involves the widening of many of the roads, and possibly the pro-ion of at least one main arterial road leading from the western district to the Bund, It has been suggested by one who has given the matter some thought that the time has come when the Council should inaugurate a fand to be increased by yearly appro- 2 priations which would enable—to commence with,—the gradual widening of the more important streets. There is a degree of indefiniteness about such a programme which does not commend it, and it must be remembered that when a road is already overtaxed it is really no wider than its narrowest part and until Nanking Road can be taken in hand on a large scale it will al-} ways present, during the crowded hours of the day, that difficult problem which it does nowadays.
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