23 FEBRUARY 1934, Page 6

I am astonished to see the London and Home Counties

Traffic Advisory Committee opposing a by-law forbidding motorists to pass stationary tram-cars while passengers are getting in or out. Washington and other American cities have had such a regulation for a dozen years or more and it is strictly enforced, as it ought to be. The Advisory Committee's excuse is that it would create obstruction—which I suppose is considered a worse