June 21, A gentleman of vision leaned out of a window overlooking ithe Bund a few days ago and marked that was no real solu tion to the parking problem in a big city except a new system of mechanical transport. Prophetically he remarked that the motor car doomed as a means of locomotion in cities unless it-could be reduced to ithe size of a ricsha, because in ithe modern office building a hundred motor car owners can be accommodated with ease, while no municipality would feel in duty bound to find park-space for a hundred cars in front of each such building.
Shopping by motor car in New York or London is no. longer pleasurable, while one hears of ban business men who put cars in garages miles from their places of business and taxi to and from their offices.
The gentleman who was moved to lecture on this subject while surveying the Bund, went on to say that the eventual solution of ithe problem of urban locomotion would probably be by something like a moving pavement, or rather parallel lines of pavements moving at various speeds, while jin the remote future business linen would undoubtedly be shot to their offices through pneuma-in luxurious steel All of this was very interesting, but it was of service to the audilence of one who had tried vainly to find a vacant place in the parking ranks on the Bund, between Nanking Road and Foochow Road, and who was forced, after touring to and fro fifteen minutes, while urgent work wait-Jed on the fifth floor of his palatial office building, to hide his conveyance behind the shed at ithe Customs Jetty.
It seemed a particularly fu: tile discussion the next day when the sinner against the regulations was honoured by a letter from an Assistant Commissioner of Police in which he was reminded that he had obstructed traffic at the Customs Jetty for an- hour and forty
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