To the Editor of the "Norru-Cunxa Dany News"
Sin—Owing to "the temporary:
sure to Rast-bound traffic of Wei wei Road at its function with Avenue Foch an abnormally largo umber of vehicles which wont otherwise use the Weihaiwei/Racecourse Road route to town has now: been diverted on to Avenue Foch anti continues citywards by Avenue: Edward VII. As a result these tio. roads are at present bean thing like three to four times thole customary amount of trafic, and. during Tush hours, the entire scotic fof Avenue Foch from Hardoon Road to the Yates Hoad/Route des Soeurs: crossing form: a bottle-neck of the: worst description. 'This in itself is! bad enough, and' obviously leads to Jo. general. slowing-up of city-bound traffic. The situation is made im: measurably worse, however, by the Jdisgracefuily selfish behaviour of an fall too large section of roads Unable apparently to accept with any degree of patience or decency. unavoidable state of affairs, the} moment these thrusters find that the main stream of trae has been hei Up they move over (0. the wrong si of the road, career past the station fry Vehicles and. then, when lock "begins (0. dissolve, force thet way in ahead of those who have been waiting In their proper position. Others pull out to the extreme left thereby considerably—hampering the drivers of the omnibuses-who have to get to their stopping-places—and. attempt to sneak in from. that quarter. These tactics are. partietlarly apparent just before the tate lights at the junction of Foch and Rol Albert.
This morning on this section of the road there were atone time three columns of vehicles headed East, and it was ten minutes by my watch before these of us in the centre frame lane were able to move forward, During the time that we sat jete' one car after another passed to right oF Left, thereby adding 19 the jam and forming a solid phalanx of opposition to West-bound vehicles, Even when this portion of the road has finally" been negotiated.—the troubles of the luckless driver who attempts 10 observe the rules are by no. means over. At the intersection of Avenue Edward VI and Vu Ya.
Ching Road the same procedure takes place. If the traMe light is against city-bound trate it is the immediate Signal for further thrusting, red Tight acting. it would seem, as a red rag to road-hogs as well as to bulls. Apart from adding considerably' to the time taken by" private ears to reach the city this type of driving, inevitably delays the omnibuses, Thi morning at five past nine scores of people were stilt waiting in Avenue Edward VII for omnibuses which could normally have got them to their offices by nine. nly these impatient Jehus woul realize it, their methods defeat their own object. This is not London and four roads are not designed to cope Let ith five or si Tines of trame. "Une Jength rather than desideratum in thi ease, and by refraining from adding to the congestion where the roads are not wide enough to deal with i those who are ina hurry would get there sooner. Driving of this des.
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