The correspondent "Pedestrian" whose letter appears in another column revives the hoary. annual concerning motor traffic in manner which is hardly likely to assist much towards a final solution of Shanghai's troubles. What he says of our streets here is true of every road in the world planned and built more than 30 years ago. They were all designed to accommodate slow-moving vehicles. With regard to his suggestion that motor-cars should, by regulation, be limited to a speed of 10 miles per hour, modern practice in cities rather more important than Shanghai is against him. In England specd limits have been or are De ing totally abolished. Nor is it reasonable to suggest that, the ordinary person is capable of judging the speed of a motor car with sufficient accuracy to enable authorities to act upon it. ud the idea of a motorist being petreuted until he agrees with correct speed for his vehicle is, pedestrian's ideas of what is a say the least, 4 little unusual. he real point is that all users of roads are morally pound to observe ordinary caution. _None has any more rights in this respect than the other, and a careless pedestrian is just as much a road hog as the careless motor-driver.
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