Further Restrictions on the Parking Vehicles The Shanghai Municipal Couneib ast Wednesday approved in principle recommendations further. restricting parking and ranking of vehicles. in congested streets of the Settlement, and decided that notice be given. the public that atter a period of nine months it intends at any time to require their enforcement, ab sixty days! notice, subject to Such extensions and modifications of the lists of roads affected and the hours dure ing which the rules are applicable as the trae situation may render desirable, The roads affected in the Present list lie between Ferry Road the Bund, and Avenue Edward Vit, Avenue Foch—Broadway west of Fearon Road, This question was brought before the Council by the Commissioner of Police, who submitted a report invit~ Ing attention to the need for restrict= Ing vehicle parking in the Settlement streets, and especially of private motor cars. Extended" parking, Said, prevented persons on visile to shops and offices' from nding places Where their cars could be drawn up to allow them. to alight, much Jo to walt for brief periods' while. they id' their business. Valuable forms of public transport, tram, bus and Public motor freight vehicle services, /were denied free movement and could Rot be developed into the modern Passenger and freight-carrying agen they should be, while the na {tural elimination of out-of-date forms of transport was impeded, A. taxi service could not be inaugurated Inasmuch as places which would be available for' stands "were mono: Polized by private cars. He recommended that reasonable notice be given that after a specified date ex: {ended parking Ju the streets of the Settlement generally would be for Didden, He arumed eat during the period of notice private enterprise Would provide garage facilities, The [Commissioner further recommended that, should such notice result in the Provision of adequate ya raging facl-Hitles, at the appropriate time TraMle Regulations as submitted by him be Introduced codifying the desired park: Would be to provide extended parking ing geplctins The ect arent facilities to a limited extent only where no, obstruction to (afe was anticipated, and to prohibit. parking Jeven for brief periods in the narrows er and more congested streets except on a specified side for a specified period, At the N.C.O'S. Mess dinner of the Armoured Car Company, SVE, held Jat the S.V.C. Club, on Thursday night, bon voyage was hidden to 8/Sit. Vet Loureiro, who goes on long. leave next week. CSM. Huxley was in the chair, and the ©. C. way a guest
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