'A survey was fade by the "North-China Herald" the other day to determine the vexed question of how many parking spaces along the Bund were occupied by cats with chautfours, which might quite easily have Deen driven away into outside areas until their owners had need of them.
'There were altogether four hundred vehis'es parked along the Bund at 345 pam. OF these 321" were. apparently' owner-driven cars, since there were no signs of chauffeurs near them. Seventy-three were chauffeur-driven cars, four were broker's traps, one was a taxi waite Ing outside a' club, ud one was a motor-cycle. 'The' area examined strelshed~from opposite the grounds of H. M. Consulate-General to the Shanghai Club, Of the chauffeurs, inoteen were. fast asleep; twenty-four were ike but might just as asleep for all the use they were making of their faculties: eleven were reading newspapers or books; eight were Just engaged in conversation; seven were playing, cards; and four were busy polishing their' cars. The survey "showed beyond dispute that there were at least seventy-three spaces in that short stretch which could, when the new regulations come into force, be made available for owner-drivers, who are likely to suffer the most Inconvenienee, "It also suggested that the Municipal Council' might soften the blow to motorists who have been accustomed to park their ehauffeur~ driven cars in the Central Disteiet by designating parking areas in the less congested parts of Shanghai within reasonable call, and installing tele-hones in these areas by means of which the ear-owner, stranded in his downtown office, could summon his ear te pick him up whenever he wanted, "without contravening even the "waiting" clauses of the new res: ulations, 'This is put forward os no more than a suggestion; to ascertain whether or not it is feasible more de-{alled inquiries than have at present been possible in' the casual census take by this Journal will be neces. sary. Tt is. known, however, that Ssimiar expedients in cities in' other countries have been successful, and there seems to beno reason to believe that they might not solve one dif culty in' Shanghai.
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