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(August' 1)

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V. Kowloon

"The

Queen's Theatre: digal."

World Theatre: "Hell Harbor." Star Theatre: "The Aviator.” Central Theatre: "Скот of Brandway."

LONDON'S TRAFFIC

A CITY FIT FOR HIGH SPEEDS NEEDEE

HISTORIC LANDMARKS MAY HAVE

TO BE REMOVED

Lawn Bowls:First Division: Kawloon Docks. v. Craigongower, Kowloon C.C + Kowloon B.G.. Police. Club de Recreio, Civil: Servies Taikon. Second · Divi- Oxford Street is now almost as We must encourage traffic to grow zion: Taikoo p. Yacht Club, Orni- Rengower. Kowloon C.O., Cimb de gay with signal lights as Clapham and show it how it may expand.

may Recreio Civil Service, Kowloon Junction. But the progress of the Cities were made for intercourse B.G. . H.K. Electric RC traffic is no better, writes Mr. not intercourse for the citica I Lawn Tennis:-"C" Division: Gerald Heard in the London Even- traffic jams, the city is a failure." Ariny Tennis Club C. University v. Radio Sportsng Standard. Instead of crawling.

A Dynamic Age, Club:

like a procession of mandarins it We hear nach about town plan. Pro- now goes in jerks and jams.ning, but it is nearly all in a pre- Although it is rather harder to scientific, and even a pre-traffic, board a 'bus, once on the passenger way. We still think of making endures even longer waits. So seat cities that will look impressive, like ed he can reflect that none of our exhibitions, rather than cities that social problems needs a larger dose will work well at modern pressures of science than un traffe proband can be used at modern speeds. lem.

Indeed, it was lucky that London For, obviously, it is one of those did not get the great plan that problems that all piecemeal im Christopher Wren drew for it. No provements only end by making doubt it would have made the City worse. It is evident that the civil authorities started at the wrong more, beautiful than Paris, but it moze beautiful than any other, far

end. From the beginning they have would have meant that London been trying to check traffic. All would have been fatally set. our notions of city planning were England's backwardness may now derived from the notion of the Forat last prove an advantage, bidden City. Holy Closes, sacred ways and royal parks have only tolerated traffic if it went round

King's, Theatre: "Dishonored." Majestic Theatre: "A Devil with Women."

Prince's Theatre: "Sunny Side Up."

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Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and Repulse Bay Hotel,

Flannel Dance at Shek-O Country Club..

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Sunday.

(August 2)

9th After Trinity. Queen's Theatre: Danco Tools Dance."

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· World Theatro: “Yik Jan Mae” (Chinese film).

about.

Built for Low-

Low Gear.

So

Our tangle of lanes and medieväl brways is a stricture on a "city's vital circulation. Londonera caught in the tangle may generate such a pressure of revolt that it will carry All reforms have been equally them into a home, if not "at for obstructive. The one Act that Eng heroes to live in," at least possible fand's one. Dictator, Oliver Crom-

for seven millions to move about well, passed on his solo authority in. But we must get away from the was an Act arbitrarily limiting the notion of planning set citice. This growing number of hackney, coaches is a dynamie age, and in any plan we must allow for growth. That is our problem, and that is why any planning has become so dif-

Star Theatre: "Lone Star Ranger."

Central Theatre: "The Silent Enemy."

in the City. Paris and Berlin are King's Theatre: Dishonored." fundamentally no better. Their Prince's Theatre: "Trader

day of judgment on the past mis Horn."

takes of planning, when the traffic will finally jam, may be a little fur ther off, but towards it they are tending as certainly as we.

Ten Dance at King's Restaurant Tides: High at 12.37 and 11.10, Low at 4.38 and, 8:0.

Monday.

(August 3)

Bank Holiday.

King Hakoon of Norway born. Motor Cycle Reliability Trial. Queen's Theatre: "Dance Fools

Dance."

World Theatre: "Yik Jan Mac" (Chinese, film).

Star Theatre: "Lone Star Ranger"

Central Theatre: "The Silent Enemy."

King's Theatre: "Dishonored.?! Prince's Theatre: "Trader Horn."

Dinner Dances at Hong Kong, and Peninsula Hotels.

Tides: High at 1.05 and 11.40; Low is 5.20 and 6.35,'

ficult.

But it is no use burking it. We shall only solve it by daring to be

scientific. That means we must understand not only the needs of present traffic but the way traffic

For they, too, are pre-traffic cities. They are laid out en plans designed for walking, pace. They could stand the horse if he walked my grow. Our cities must not be or ambled. That was their limit. rigid. It was a triumph of scien tific planning-for-traffic when, in And now all they can do is to stead of a hurdle-portcullis, the banish the horse. Their traffic Brat gate was hinged to swing open policy is prohibitive instead of

in the City wall. We must hinge" being expansive, "it is negative in-

our cities to take the flow of their stead of positive

traffic, for their traffic is not an inatrusion; it is the breath of their life, and the deeper, they breathe the stronger they will grow."

The Bai.

But simply to get rid of the horse is no solution. For, fundo mentally, it is not the horse that is in the way, but the city that was built to his low-gear speed.

What traffic authoritics have to do, then, is not merely to forbid transport, but to open new ways.

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The antiquarian veto must be put aside. We are always being told (Continued on Page 4.)

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