"Motorist's" letter, In the correspondence columns, calls altenlon to a very real grievance with regard to parking on the Bund. The authorities have taken trouble to mark the area set aside for parking in a manner which lows space for the greatest number of cars, if the advice which those Untes silently give is taken, but it follows that if'care is not taken (0 park a car within the space delimited one vehicle may very well occupy the space meant for two, of produce the same effect further down the line. After some years of noticing how some of the drivers put their cars away before entering their offices it is apparent. either that they are remarkably careless, heedless of the convenience of the other fellow or no better than very oer drivers, and judging by "the manner in which some of them back their cars into available spaces the last named category is in by means a small proportion, The space between the while lines. is ample for any car if sufficient care is taken by the driver to come to a stop between them. Trespass over one line or the other reduces the space available for the next car which similarly trespasses and consequently the original fault is carried out all along the line to the increasing loss" of available space, SuMlcient room is also there' for backing, into the row, unless of course the driver comes within the definition of those who are definitely bad, and it has to be said about a large number of those who profess to drive that their ability. to "back is conspicuously lacking. "That reason why they should not. learn, and a summons or two would prob: ably be the best way of inctleating a desire for knowledge. The elution of the whole - matter, however, rests in the hands of the motorists themselves, "Common. courtesy demands that they shall keep "to the areas defined by the White lines, "Their ears" would be correctly placed for the other driver, he would in turn be able to occupy: hhis appropriate space and the total result would be that the maximum. Use would be made of the aren Which has been set aside. That It Would not solve the dimeuilties con nected with parking op the Bund {s agreed, but it would certainly imrove matters,
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