TrafMe conditions in Shanghai are such a frequent and apparently inexhhaustible source of comment that further reference would seem merely labouring the point were it not for the fact that things are not improving, People attending the ceremony of Trooping the Colour, carried out 50 efficiently by the Worcestershire Regiment at the Racecourse on Thursday evening, experienced traffic conditions on Nanking Road at their worst. Progress along Nanking Road was probably the slowest on record, and there are instances of cars taking more than twenty minutes to proceed from the Bund and Nanking Road corner to the Racecourse, which resulted in many cases of late arrival. In some cases the delay was so great that people had to leave their cars and walk to the Racecourse instead of tolerating the snail's pace at which traffic proceed~ ed. There appeared to be an adequate number of policemen on duty but the road war simply blocked with trae which could not move owing interruptions at the various inter sections. Surely on such a widely-publicized event better organization could have been provided to handle traMe and if not accelerate it at
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