To the Editor of the fonru-Cixa Day News"
Sin—Perusing the recent report of the Commissioner of Police and the ridings and recommendations of the 'Tratfle Commission, one cannot help thinking that they' have both failed miserably in their respective tasks. It does not take experts to discover the cause of 99 per cent. of motor tooting, for if bicycles, rickshaws, and Dieycles again, wore forced to keep to the curb and not stray all round the road as is now done, unnecessary motor tooting would automatically disappear. It appears that the police Tabour under the impression that Mle regulations are imposed for the sole observance of motorists, and that all other forms of tref are absolutely immune to any semblance fof order, for time and time again T have observed constables loitering in the streets with rickshaws running two and three abreast, the nearest well from the curb at that, with an unfortunate motorist trying to get! through. For the latter there is no alternative but to try to. blast his way through, whereas if the police would try to' keep the crown of the road clear for faster-moving traffic, this blasting would not be necessary. If on the other hand the police are unable or unwilling to try to keep slow-moving traffic close to the curb, why not try and change the regulations—namely, fast tram close to the curb and rickshaws and bicycles in the centre, especially as the latter two show' such marked preference {or this particular part of the road.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.