QUEEN STREET PROMENADERS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 167, 14 July 1916, Page 2

QUEEN STREET PROMENADERS

TAXI-DKIVERS COMPLAIN OF OBSTRUCTION. At last night's meeting of the Auckiand City Council a letter was received from the Amalgamataed Association of Taxi Owners and Drivers, with regard to the by-law prohibiting the driving of motor along the centre of streets, and suggesting that in place of the existing by-law last moving vehicles should be allowed to take the centre of the streets, and the slow moving once the sides of the streets. Tbe~ writers complained that if motor J vehicles were kept to the sides of. the, streets the risk of accidents to foot - passengers would- be- increased -to a large, extent. Footpaths in the main 6treets vrere not nearly wide enough to accommodate the pedestrian traffic on busy days and at nights. On euch occasions the bulk of the people walked in the carriage way. They also suggested that the destination sigra of tramcars shonld be placed on the sides of the cars, and thns avoid the necessity of people stepping into the roadway to Tead the sign, in which act they were liable to be knocked down. The letter was referred to the Financo and Legal Committee.