A VICTORIAN ON LONDON'S TRAFFIC

Otago Witness, Issue 2861, 13 January 1909, Page 60

A VICTORIAN ON LONDON'S TRAFFIC

Writina 1 to an Australian paper. "STy Howard Blondpj, avlio is on a \i«ir t o Euiopo. ins thi« to say — "I rpniPinb'-i* | my fn-sr impre«sicn regarding t'.o tiafHc of ! London, ,t wu« while looking down on it from the top cf a "bus. I was studying it iniently. when tho notion occui red to me that n was a long series of clo«c "-have*, which continually ilireatoned collisions ami accidents, but which seldom, if <ncr, cccurred "Each drier. be hi^ \e)ncio propeilpfT ' by hoise, electricity, or himu>r. ! fffort, appealed to instinctively know tiie I length, breadth, and area of "his vobiclp. and seonicd to bo poise«ed of Rocond 9iKhr, ina'-much as h^ apparent ly was aware of the intended movements of his immediate neighbour-., and, notwithstanding all t'lp many var>i«i K rpeed s of the vehic-les surrounding | bif-i, where any or all of them would be at any gnen moment. Tho hoi«e<; m London aic perf<»ot «toics. and regard tho tooting t.ixie- and rumbling moror-'ou'Os as next of km The driver? as a bod> could not be h«atpn; tho v are experts in p\ei-j sense of ihe word. A gieat doal of the* parcel tielnow l'orp is pffectod in small, box-like onus on a tnry. 1 G Uair.o piopellcd with pedul- bj a lad oi ma. p\s «-d -o dn-r-crlv uiif.'^j 1 • i mi that h^ du-I.im jjoy.it. ov.it ,« ie- ! duccd ;o Tiie mnnmujii i cqcu cd. Votr,- j I car> » i<-, here, thoi-, „i,<| o\ci \ w here • , jeally, Auitn-l-a liardlv know- to what o\ ! , tonr th" automobile ha«- de\ eloped in the ' [ old woi !<.' "