A New Chatt of the Settlement The experts of the Traffic Department are constantly at work devising means of coping with Shanghai's road problems, and the latest scheme to come under notice is a chart of the Settlement, specially designed to show at a glance places where accidents most frequently occur, as well as the class of vehicle involved in the' accident.
On the walls in the Traffic Office may be seen maps of each of the districts into which the Setilement is divided, and they are dotted with pins having variously coloured heads, resembling the political maps on view at Party headquarters during an election in England. Each pin indicates the precise spot at which an accident has occurred. A green headed pin denotes an accident without injury, a white pin one in which the hospitals have been interested, and a black one a fatal accident. Further sub-division is secured by the use of "slip"? beads which can be strung on the pins. For example, a black-headed pin with a red slip-bead indicates a fatal accident caused by a tram car. There are blue slip beads for motor car accidents, green for carriages, yellow for wheel-barrows and rieshas, and silver for handcarts.
One has only to glance at the map to see the streets and street crossings which are most prolific in accidents. Nanking Road, as one might expect, is thickly studded with the incriminating pins, which are most numerous at the Honan Road and Fokien Road crossings. The outstanding feature of the map is that, wherever the pins are in heavy array, there will tram lines also be found. Black headed pins, indicating fatal accidents, are most numerous in Yangtszepoo Road, possibly for the reason that the road is frequently crowded with mill workers who are unac-'
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