MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 22nd May, 1926,
1 Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association),
H
CURRENT
COMMENT
Garden Rond..
in reining in a spirited horse. Last week's reference, to the order parts of the world, the danger which faces pedestrians fair sex has taken to motoring "on Garden Road has brought fort, as the proverbial duck to water. several comments or approval As a pastime, an hour or two at the wheel is not only enjoyable, from our readers. We are also glad to notice that one
but exhilarating We would tem- of our contemporaries has referred to the per these remarks with a word matter, although we do not agree of caution, however, prompted by that the suggestion to remove the observing the lady who drove up" island garden opposite the Peak from the low road
at Repulse tram station in order to provide Bay the other evening. Don't parking space, is either pracitical show off! It may somewhat fas
desirable. One reader en-cinating to let other people see phasises the danger to school that you are not afraid to "let children who have to make use of her out" but choose a suitable the thoroughfare, and another place for the exhibition,
or
suggests that some relief might Motorists, Note! be obtained if Wyndham Street
on the
CHICAGO'S PARKING PROBLEM SOLVED.
Municipal parking, grounds take care of thousands of Chicago automobiles each day. Thia parking space is located along the lake front and it serves to relieve the city's, trafo
congestion and parking problem...
THE SHEKKO ROAD.
BADLY IN NEED OF IMPROVEMENT.
[DY MOTORIST."]
Along another part, asphalt ann stones have been put down with no covering surface, with the result that it is extremely un- "pleasant to ride over.
HIGH TAX ON BUSSES.
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. Busses carry an average tax Thie por-burden of from 7 to 12 per cent. tion of the road is composed of of their ad valorem value, says practically nothing but stories.
Mr. F. R. Fageol, bus manufac- which render the road most dan
türer. Yet the average tax on property is between 2 and 3 per eant, of their ad valorem value, he adds.
of its
Heavy
ANOTHER BUS CITY.
were opened to motor traffic. Motorists in general, like other. This would certainly be a short-specific classes of the community, cut for residents of Robinson and suffer a deal of harm because cer- Caine Roads, but we doubt tain of their number indulge in whether public opinion would practices which reflect favour the removal of the flower class as a whole. This is so in vendors stands to another local regard to infringements of traffic tion, because it would obviously rules, and many other purely be unsafe to allow motor traffic to motoring matters. The result is brush pass people patronising the that all are blamed whereas in flower sellers. However, an point of fact only a few deserve equally attractive site might be the censures.. The same argu- found for the flower market, and ment applies to those motorists it must be said that there is much who, according to reports, have congratulate itself on having some in favour of the suggestion..
of later been in the habit of pick-of the best traffic road surfaces ing the flowers from some really in the East, but however good ↑ Conduit Road.
beautiful shrubs which
the thing may be, there is generally. Government has planted along the room for improvement, and the Permit holders to drive up under the bridge from Robinson Taipo Road. According to the Shekko Road is badly in need of Road should remember that only men, European motorists are the like Hongkong is by no means an Botanical and Forestry Depart-this. Road-making in an island one-way traffic is permitted. Driving down
offenders. There on to Robinson higgest
is easy matter, it being impossible to Rond again the correct route is really no excuse for this kind of make straight roads devoid of down by Sir Paul Chater's house, the least degree sorry to see socie lie of the land. When one has thing, and we should not be in dangerous corners, owing to the This is, of course, necessary; owing to the marrow and difficult of the guilty ones brought before travelled along the main roantis, the Court and heavily fined, with their, smooth surfacing, and road under the bridge. Formerly After all, it is to the benefit or twists and turns"generally made smooth one. Several motor cycles trolley for the bus. cara occasionally came downl under the bridge at the moment motorists in general to have our as easy of negotiation as possible, another was ascending, which country side made beautiful, and entailed quite a dangerous back!
for anyone wilfully to despoil ing maneuvre attended with the thest flowering shrubs is poor risk of collision.
gratitude for what the Govern- ment is doing.
Pruning Needed. Motorists should not forget that a new "control area" has
For the benefit of the been established at Tsun Wanies concerned, we desire to draw
New Control.
attention
On the whole, the Colony dangerous for motorists.
rains have had such an effect that the water has made a small nullah
gown in draining off. ****
increase on this road in proper- It is quite likely that traffic will
tion to the expansion of the Colony, and later on several 'really · dangerous corners will have to b attended to. One of the worst ja near the Country Club, and the bad state of the road renders these more dangerous, as the saine con trol cannot be exercised 'overn vehicle on a rough road as on a have skidded, narrowly escaping nasty accident, and it traffic greatly increases, ย serious mishap will probably occur, which might have been avoided if the road had been brought up to the excellence of the other roads of the 'Colony,
one cannot help feeling admin tion at the manner in which many livious difficulties have been over come.
The Shekko Road, while not so important us others, carries a fair amount of traffe, and it must be said that it is about time authorisone effort was made to improve" While the road is not sufficiently
its condition. Previously nothing but a narrow path.
of a
this road
War
It
important to be brought up to first-class condition, "an attempt should be made to make it reason.
Trouble will be saved-by acting little pruning being done on the was made into a motor road in, ably safe and comfortable..
according to the usual signs. Sheko Road.
to the necessity lower stretch of Stubbs Rold. In view of the development of the several places there are trees Shekko district. Although the
An interesting articles appears in shrubs protruding from the amount of traffic that passes over elsewhere in this Supplement with regard to the Sheko Road over the side channels, and for of the road is in a state that calla hedges for a considerable distance it is not large, the greater part" It is to, he hoped that the motorists driving down the hill for attention. authorities with not allow this this is particularly uncomfortable, thoroughfare to completely go to,
For the first half mile "every
ruin for the sake of the relatively in keeping to the left side, thing in the garden is lovely," do small expenditure required tol they come into contact with these to speak, the surface providing bring it back to a
overhanging branches. An hour's easy riding because of a tar state of repair. If it is to be work along this road in keeping macadam surface, but some un entirely neglected, how an earth back the trees and shrubs would pleasant surprises lie
well repaid..
reasonable
can the original and heavy expen- diture he justified?
British Versus Foreign.
We have received a letter tpo late for this week's Motor Supple-
ahead. After this first half mile, only half the road is tar macadam for a short distance, unit apparently
GETS AFTER FRAUDS. little or no efforts are being made to finish the other half. The result is that when two vehicles.
The Pennsylvaniu plan for approach each other, one has to ment which denis with the ques- eurbing fraudulent automobile pull out on to the rough surfact tion of preference for British associations is advocated by the and, bump it's way past. Further- vehicles in this Colony. The National Vigilance Committee of more, when a roud is only half writer, who, by the way, is not the Associated Advertising Club Onished, it proves a big tempta connected with the trade, takes of the World. In that state the tion to the motorist to drive on unbrage at the stipulation that insurance commissioner has the wrong side. vehicles for public service must authority to supervise control and bo according to certain specifica- examine all automobile protective tions and of British manufactura, companies.
His letter will appear next Satur-
day, and in the meantime other!
readers may care to send in their BOOTLEGGER views on this distinctly intriguing question.
Lady Drivers,
CAR.
between four and five miles long, The rest of the road, which is
is, to use the expression of one' who has travelled along it, WANTSsional patches of tarmac, which, "horrible." there being only oɛča-
because of their isolated positione cause big jolts, The motorists' eurse, pot-holes, are to be found
Because a bootlegger's car was in plenty,and woe betide the car fitted with a smoke screen, the with a weak chassis spring" that
branches
So far, Hongkong apears to U. S. Navy Department has sought hits a big one! Part of the road, have a remarkably small number action to seize it as a combat near the Barrier Corner, where a of lady drivers. This is really car" and destroy it as a dangerous path surprising when is considered weapon.
off .to Cape that there is far less risk in con- fighting for his car, in the Dis particular piece is now as bad as But the bootlegger is D'Aguilar, was repaired, but that trolling a modern motor car than trict of Columbia courts.
sver.
"Rutland, Vt., has fallen in line "with the cities of the country that have given up trolley, service for busses. Santa Cruz, Cal, and Astoria, Ore., are among the latest Pacific coast cities to abandon the
GASOLINE .UNIFORMITY.
The uniformity of gasoline has become more common. There has been a slight average increase in the volatility of the motor gus line in use to-day, according to tests made by the US. Bureau of Mines.
TWO-SEATER TAXIS IN ENGLAND,
The Home Secretary (Sir William Joynpon-Hicks) has issued an Order to permit the licensing of two-seater taxicabs in London
to ply for hire at ninepence a mile. One of the small cabs is shown on the left, contrasted with a present day four-seater cabi
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HUGE PARKING GARAGES.
Dr. W. A. Hargreaves, the ing problem in Pittsburgh, three
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