Ta the Editor of the "Norrn-Crina Datty News."
Sir.—May I venture to remind you that there are many hundreds of thousands of us tram riders in Shanghai who most urgently need! more tram facilities both for our safety, our convenience, and last but not least our health. We have waited long and patiently for this, hoping that the Council would either get some other Company ta accept their rather exacting terms or that they would make suitable concessions to the existing one. We are not so much concerned with the opinion of the writer of your leaden on Shanghai transport problems as to whether Mr. Hamilton is biased in favour of trams and not competent to judge, as we.are, in getting the cheapest and hest public service we can in fair open public competition, which shall ensure the Company offering the cheapest and best fares to the public with the maximum returns to the Council, now, and not at some imaginary time in the future, shall be given the concession. There seems to be no other Company willing to risk their money in it, so terms will have to be made with the existing one. Why do our Public Health authorities preach hygiene while we practise such unhygienic over-crowding? Why do the traffic people talk of central congestion while we hinder the means of decent tralization. Why preach safety when we enforce a state of danger? Is it in the interests of the many or the few that we are most concerned in the administration of our city?
I am, ete., Guert E. Peer.
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