CROSSING TRAFFIC

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 249, 2 August 1941, Page 6

CROSSING TRAFFIC

HAVELOCK STREET THE BUSIEST BOROUGH COUNCIL TAKES A CENSUS. TOTAL OF 4017 VEHICLE®. YESTERDAY.

A census of traffic-—motor and horsedrawn —over the Havelock,Burnett, Tailored, Moore and Kermode Street crossings between. G a.m. and 10 p.m. yesterday has produced interesting results. The census was taken by the Borough Council after receipt of a letter from the Railway Department suggesting the closing of the Burnett and Moore Street crossings, which, according to a- census taken by the Department, earried only a very light amount of traffic, so that the remaining crossings, which ivould consequently bo more important, would be more likely to be equipped with improved warning devices than if the present conditions continued. * The figures for tho day show that Havelock Street crossing is easily the most used, tho traffic passing over it being equal to that at both Tancred and Burnett Streets. Fourteen hundred and thirty-five vehicles passed over the crossing during the day, an average of 1£ vehicles a minute. Next comes Tancred Street, with 818, or less than a vehicle a minute; Burnett, Street 618, Moore Street 608, and, lastly, Kermode Street with a traffic of 538. The total number of vehicles to pass over all five crossings during the day -was 4017, Havelock Street carrying about 35 per cent, of this figure. Havelock Street, Moore Street, and Kermode Street had their busiest hours between 4 and 5 p.m., when the respective tallies were 155, 100 and 85. At Tancred and Burnett Streets the heaviest traffic was between 2 and 3 p.m., the figures being 99 and 98 respectively. Railway Department Tallies. Tallies taken by the Railway Department and submitted to the Borough Council last Monday evening were as follow:

Monday, April 7: Walnut Avenue, 660 vehicles. Thursday, April 3: Havelock Street 1083, Tancred Street 589. Wednesday, April 2: Burnett Street 348, Moore Street 340, Kermode Street 422.

The census taken by the Council gives a result almost identical with* that of the Department with the exception that Kermode Street is placed before Burnett and Moore Streets in the Departmental.census, but. is placed after them in the Council’s figures.

Tfhe Borough Council wijjl confer with the District Engineer of the Railway Department (Mr F. P. Morey) on Mondav afternoon.