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18th December 1928
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THE Continental system of regulating 'pedestrian traffic crossing the streets at given points and at a given signal during the rush hours of the day has been urged upon the Minister of Transport, but his view is that it is not practicable in London. Signs, he points out, have been erected in important thoroughfares, indicating the most suitable crossingplaces for pedestrians, and it is proposed to extend this practice.

OUR streets are not wide enough for it to be necessary to limit their crossing, by pedestrians to certain clearly 'defined places, whilst the pavements, again, are insufficient in width to warrant the concentration of pedestrian traffic at only such points as can be placed under the control of traffic police. With wide streets and wide pavements we might quickly reach that state, observable in the streets of American cities, where crossing at any spot except those clearly indicated would bring about the receipt by the offender of a " Jay card:" THE railway statistics for the month of Sep tember are just available. They go to show that the public was quick to take advantage of the fine weather with which it was favoured, for the journeys by passengers at reduced fares showed an increase of 7,397,584, as compared with the figures for September, 1927, but the journeys at ordinary fares had decreased by 6443,135. The total number of journeys taken in the month was 102,105,517, the net increase being 954,449, or 0.9 per cent, The receipts from passengers, however, showed a decrease of 173,397, or 1.2 per cent, and as the train miles were increased by 0.9 per cent. (206,548 extra miles) it looks as if the companies did not reap any substantial benefit from the low fares.

In goods traffic, too, there was a diminution of no less than 9.8 per cent. -of the tonnage conveyed. The figure for the month was 24,629,527 tons, or a decrease of 2,690.276 tons. Freight train miles were 763,042 less, or a decrease of 6.3 per cent., and the freight train receipts were £8,514,680, a decrease of £000,956, or 9.7 per cent.

If space will permit, in our next issue we will give a summary of the railway traffic statistics for the first nine months of 1028. They are extraordinarily illuminating.

ON the frequently raised subject of damage to houses in London due to heavy traffic vibration, Colonel Ashley declares that there is some reason to hope that the vibration caused by heavy traffic will decrease in future, owing to the improvements that are continually being made in road surfaces and in the design and construction of heavy vehicles. He does not think that much can be done by legislation towards a solution of this problem, but steps have recently been taken to encourage the use of pneumatic tyres, by a substantial rebate of taxation in respect of heavy motor vehicles so fitted and by an increase of the speeds permitted to them.

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