An interesting report of the Traffle Committee was considered by the Shanghai Municipal Council Wednesday. The Committee have had the benefit of considering a memorandum from a public.spirited resident, Mr. G. Robinson, whove views on the subject give evidence considerable thought. Apart from the fact that some of the Committee appeared to think that the higher rate of casualty in. less favoured ities than Shanghai was a price well paid for faster-moving trafic, the chet interest In the report les {n its recommendation that, to the Polle Department, should be appointed a qualified trate expert. 'Thle vague proposal, modified by a George 'Sampson-like salute to the police, has been referred to the 'Watch' Committee, With the general idea of setting up a Transport Board co-ordinate the departmental handling of the trafic problem and to bring unification Into the working of the various servicer in the three municipal areas, this journal has been in sympathy. It cannot, however, imagine what, a trafic expert fo- the purpose named can possibly be. It conceivably might be useful for a police officer well-acquainted with conditions in Shang-to be specially appointed for exclusive attention to traffic matters.
It might even be salutary—assuming that the cost were not prohibitive—it he were allowed to spend time In studying conditions of traffic: control in other large cities, "although Shanghai has such special problems of its own that the application of other methods must necessarily be Himited in extent. The Traffle Committes's idea of a "trate expert'—with the highest respect for the Jdemonaical police of course—appears to have suffered several sea-changes it permissible to note Mr. Robinson's "reference to a Mein: Kamnpt. D8.
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