Mr. L, O'B, Conolly, an Australian foumalist who is motoring round the world on behalf of a news agency that gives the Australian public information about molering conditions in other countries, has lullered "harsh words about. trample conditions in this city. He describes {raMle control here as the worst he has seen in the Par East. Shanghai may comfort itself with the thought that he has not yet seen many large cities in the Far East, and also that he can have no idea of the peculiar dimeuities which have to be met here. Shanghai must be the largest city in this part of the world he has yet visited, and when he becomes. more familiar with the prob-Jems" the local traffic authorities have to overcome, it Is possible that he will revise his judgment, It Is strange colneldence, however, that on the same day that Mr. Conolly's criticism was published there should be a criticism of a trate rule fron the bench in HM. Police Court, and another from a local resident in the correspondence columns. All Is certainly not well with Shanghai trame conditions, The registrar in H.M. Court pointed out the diMiculties caused by the slow driver in the streets where passing is forbidden. 'He was informed that tame regul thous are being "revised." The welter of the letter to the editor complained of the "Jay walker." Both are per~ fectly' legitimate complaints, but nelther'can be laid to the charge of the Traffle Department, This depart. ment has carefully marked most of the street intersections in the International Settlement with paths by 8 can eros in safety, use of these pedestrian paths fs too formidable to contemplate and would require many more policemen than fare at present available for duty. Patience' 1s an essential factor in securing the necessary development of the traffic "sense in this cosmopolitan city, "In time the "Jay walker" will be taught. At present he Is in an inconvenient majority Stil, there are certain places traffic conditions can be improved and in due course, the reforms which the Counelt proposes to establish will, meet some of the difficulties countered by motorists in the Central Distelet. Only the motorist grows Impatient at times and feels inclined to parody King Charles U's apology bby asserting that such halcyon cor ditions are an unconscionable time doing born,
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