If there were a bridge over the Yangtze either at Chinkiang or at Nanking, the trip from: Haichow to Shanghai would be a simple matter, easily accomplished in a day, Ag. Is, the river crossing presents quite a'problem. "In addition to the means of communteation already' mentioned, Haichow now has five. planes pet week going both north and south. 'The China National Aviation Corpor tion's dally service from Shanghat to Peiping, for two days of the week, ces by Nanking' and does not stop ai Haichow, the other ye days of the week have a regular stop at Haichow both to and {rom Shanghai.
The frst attempts at building motor ronds in this district were little more than a levelling of some of the rougher places and. the putting in some very poor make-shift bridges. They often wound round anywhere that old barrow track formerly followed. Now the roads are being builtin Jong straight stretches, high above the level of the surrounding land and the bridges are either stone, concrete oF wood and of a very durable type. Besides the very long and costly bridges across tie "Haichow River, there are many other long bridges seress considerable rivers, and. the expense connected with building them has been a tremendous item in the voad-building budget, When Gen. Pel Pao-shan was in' charge of the Haichow District he started modern rond building, but the great political upheaval of 1927 put an end to his road building before it gob well slarted, has occasioned considerable table and ino little dissatisfaction. For travel the road" between Hsinpu and 'Panpu, a distance of less than Atteen miles,' "a special tax is levied fon the ears which travel this stretch Of road, In addition to the already Very heavy tax collected by the provincial government for its regular Butomobile licences, This Is avery important stretch of road and should bbe well kept up, but there does not seem to be any valid reason for raking an extra charge for its use.
Another strange thing is noted by almost every visitor to this district Jand is y source of chagrin to those here who have a real pride in the progress made In road improvement, 2nd that is the condition of the short road between Haichow and Hsinpu, the most important four miles in the whole road system of this section, travelled by a continuous, stream of all types of vehicles, This stretch about the worst to be found anywhere in the regular motor road aystem. The bridges from time 10 time are being broken by heavy trucks, the horse and mule carts and barrows, which continuously move back and forth over the road, keep It cut up snd in a disgraceful condition.
'There should be a separate motor road connteting Haichow and Hsinpu, over which, only rubber-tyred trame ig allowed." Some years ago there was a definite plan to build such a Fond, but lack of ce-operation on the part' of local authorities killed the project. Hsinpu is the business contre of ihis district and Haichow City a favourite residential area and the seat of the government, Naturally the travel between these iwo places sue cient to keep the road crowded with vehicles through the day and on Into the night.
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