With Shanghai's motorists adapting themselves to "the new parking rer ulations, the city's public tsnsport ton facilities have once again come into the public eye, Public ulillties are notoriously the targets of criticism the World over, and this elly's do not escape censure, "A survey shows Nowover, that on the whole Shang: hhal need not bow to any ely In the Far, East, While a comparison with larger cities at home might not be flattering, It would also be far from tals. Conditions here, the congur. ton of the Settlement and the Concession, the restrictions Imposed by the purely Oriental types of trafic, and the very nature of the majority "of passengers, preclude the possl-Dility of excellence which has' been attained at home, Shanghai is dis teasingly behind the times when It comes to, tramways, with an ultra narrow gorge and equipment which far from modern. In other Far Eastern cities, particularly in Japan, trams have been brought thoroughly' up-to-date, with modern _alr-brake: wide gauge tracks, and speed match other forms of trame. On the other hand, the local tramway company his placed into operation exccollont modern trackless trolley trams, which compare very favour ably With those at home, and which area tremendous improvement, in the case with which. they" thread Uhrough (raffle, load and unload, over any trams, in bus services, the' Solttement at least has been provided with the finest equipment to be found anywhere in this part of the world Even in Japan, modern in other spects, the buses are exceedingly poor.' Complaints are often heard locally "regarding crowding. The: rapidity with which now units are: being put on the roads argues. that the local bus company is doing a rear deal to alleviate this condition, though overcrowding during. rush hours. seems inevitable here as great cities elsewhere. While there {s, of course, room for improvement, it Ig still apparent that Shanghai thas less to complain of than other cities of equal or greater size in the East,
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