ROADS IN CHINA.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18635, 2 August 1930, Page 11

ROADS IN CHINA.

China to-day has more than 30,000 miles or roads capable of bearing motor traffic, with an additional 3764 miles under construction. Dirt roads are being rapidly converted into paved roads. The provinces which at present possess the greater number of usable roads are Kuantang and Honan, yet the district between Shanghai and Peiping is steadily growing in the number of motor roads it contains, as are Chekiang and several other provinces in Central China. In the Province of Fukien there were only three motor vehicles in 1922. Today that province has more than 300 buses running over modern and wellbuilt roads. The highway between Foochow, the capital of the province, and Amoy, a prosperous seaport, is described as one of the best in the country. Highway construction in the interior is being rapidly carried out.

CARELESS PEDESTRIANS.

Quite recently there have been two developments of outstanding interest in connection with the problem of protecting the pedestrian against himself and against the carelessness of other road users. The first is the inauguration in New York of a police campaign against careless walkers. In the United States they are taking action, a number of people having already been summoned and fined for walking to the common danger. The second development is in the nature of a proposal to compel walkers to use the subways under what is regarded as the second busiest spot in London, if not in the world, namely.. Piccadilly Circus, crossing the road on foot above ground being prohibited.

The following notice was observed recently on a Liverpool motorist’s car: —“Steady! Rather be home at twelve than in Heaven at eleven!”