To the Editor of the "Nowru-Curwa Dany News"
Si—The announcement of the date of enforcement of the new Parking Regulations brings the matter serioutbefore everyone's notice.
now about a year since the proposals were suggested and it was Originally stated that the provision of additional parking space in the down-town area would be left to pri-vote enterprise. Asfar as Tam aware nothing whatever has been done in this respect and In September many car-owners who cannot afford chauffeur, or prefer not to have one, will have to get rid_of their cars Jand use the buses. The regulations thus operate against owner-driven cars and will tend to force people to keep chauffeurs.
Three classes of people thus benet home ater' taking master to the The Bus and Tram Companies will Motors have come to stay and legislation which results in motor car! owners being inconvenienced is retro~ grade. As the world becomes more and more mechanized and as ears get cheaper and cheaper, it must be recognized that accommodation has to bbe provided for these vehicles. Park ing facilities in any great city should be provided by the municipal suthorities, though not necessarily free.
'There' is probably time between now and Spetember to arrange for considerable additional space but the work could not be put through guielsly enough, there is no real rea~ on why the new Parking Regulations: should not be postponed for another month or two.
Last year a suggestion was made that Shantung Road Cemetery—long closed, with the memorials crumbling and decaying be cleared of existing raves by Wransferring them to Hung-fae Road or Bubbling Well Cemetery: the space thus made available to be! converted into a parking spect, ither single or doubled-decked, This could be made to accommodate up to 500 or 600 cars.
In some English towns it has been' found practical to construct underground garages, for instance Hastings the jade. In these days has a very big public garage under
water-proof cement cellars which are common in Shanghai, there Is no reason why such a garage should not! be constructed under the grass plots on the Bund, thus providing parking] space for another 500 to 600 cars without interfering with the appeartance of the water front, It Is cus-fernery at home to charge for park-Ing in such places and it ought to be. possible to recover from parking fees the expenditure involved, both - at Shantung Road and on the Bund.
Tt is, grossly unfair to charge motorists "the present high Heence fees for' extremely " limited available roads and then introduce Fegulations depriving them of the] opportunity to use their cars.
Tt the Council takes steps to provide parking space at reasonable Fentals, then the new regulations are admirable and worthy of full support.
Shanghai, June 6.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.