To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuiva Dany News,"
Sinj—Mr, Here-Belisha, the Minister of Transport for Great Britain, opened (we underground car parks Hastings on June 15. In his speech at the. opening, according to the "Dally Mirror" of June 16, Mr, Hore-Belisha declared:—
0 tls somebody "and! one In 20 Every year one motor veblele in
Injures somebody." Streets, he said, should' be through ways,, not parking Places. ite said that if London and ther elfes could also provide under round. parking places, there would be'none'of that congestion for which stationary vehicles "are. responsible, find because of which many' of our Principal streets ave deprived Of halt Broir frame value.
The real trouble Iles in the fact that there has been no real provision for mechanical trame and to incorporate' it successfully into other forms of road gramme will never be possible until the roads are properly 'The speeding up of certain vehicles not the solution of the trample prob Jem=rather is it that' the slowing down of certain vehicles Is required and an improvement in the. general of trae obtained, It should be remembered that the Commissioner of "Police has every aspect of the question. to consider fand the interests of all sections of the community to serve and in removing the obstructions to. the free flow of trame he will have achieved on Improvement which will be of where she can park her car? Is a merchant to be forced to move from the central district, establish branches in various part of the city, or see his business suffer for a whim of the traffic department? Already quite a number of our customers have remarked that they do not know what they will do about their shopping after the new regulations go" into effect, As 'a merchant, I am strenuously opposed to the proposed new traffic by-law. As a motorcar owner driver of many years, not only in. Shanghai but abroad, T must agree with several of your other correspondents that Shanghai, In comparison with other cities, has no trafic problem, Shanghai, Aug. 7.
'A. Mencnanr.
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