Restrictions North of Creek Cause New Type Of Traffic Using Roads to South, Report Shows Shanghaj, Mar.
[ANY problems affecting the roads in the Settlement South of the Soochow Creek, which arose out of the restrictions imposed North of the Creek and the consequent change in the type of traffic using the roads to the West, are revealed in the report of the Commissioner of Public Works which was released yesterday. Difficulties due to the inability to obtain stone from the municipal quarry and to the shortage of certain essential road-building materials hampered work of the department, After listing the principal activities of the department, the report continues The main feature of the year has been the development, of the town owing 10 the long continued restric tions North of the Soochow Creel.
Before, the hostilities the rood sy: tem and the types of road construce Hon "had been adapted to a well Mabilized ow of the different classes of tralle, a large part of the heavy. Industrial trafic plying between the wharves and jetties on the river Front and the factories and godowns the Eastern District.
For more than a year the restric~ tions in this area have diverted almost all trame to the roads South of the Creek, adding to the congestion there.
yredhandearts, which do much damage to the roads, are as before, while the nu her of heavy motor freight vehicles 80 per cent, greater than it was fore" the hostilities. The sudden development of a nev industrial area West of the Settlement boundary hi created a new flow of heavy lorries fand handcarts and an increased pasfrenger transport. service on roads Teading West which were never per-pared for it, permits issued for Chinese houses was greater than in any year since 1994.
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