QUEEN STREET TRAFFIC.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 284, 1 December 1925, Page 9

QUEEN STREET TRAFFIC.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I note with interest the draft of suggested, amendments to the traffic bylaws submitted to the City Council by the City Solicitor. It would appear to mc that the traffic problem presented by Queen Street has been, is at the present moment, and will continue to be in the future, a constantly recurring one. In the past certain amendments have been made to cope with this problem; the present suggested amendment is a further instalment towards the desired effect of permanently overcoming it. But why should the City Council concern themselves with these temporary arrangements ? It would be of benefit to look overseas and note how the largest city, or rather county, in the world, the London of the Mother Country, has solved her metropolitan traffic difficulties. And bear in mind that London is an old place with none of the availability of expanding its city that Auckland possesses, being comparatively new. There they early saw the impossibility of allowing both motor and tramway traffic in the busy city streets, and diverted the tramways accordingly. The benefit accruing therefrom is easily observed. A clear field is left and congestion and liability to accidents greatly decreased. If one city can adopt such a scheme for regulating central traffic, cannot Auckland do the same and once for all solve the problem that has obtained till now and shows such signs of increasing? Natairally obvious disadvantages arise, but wouM not the equally obvious advantages entailed by a permanent and successful solution of traffic worrieß easily sway the balance in its favour?—l am, etc., THOS. HUGHES.