MOTOR CARS IN QUEEN STREET.
Y\ ould it not have lieen better to keep all motor cars—and perhaps tr.iiuf.irs. ti>o-*-out of Queen Street the last two e\iii:ngs? tn Tuesday evening I went to Queen Mreet to see the illuminations, and found an endless stream of motor oars going up one side of the street and down the other i: struck me that people were selfish to use cars for such a purpose. The crowd was verv la r jje, and it must have included uianv country \isitors» Ihese observers on foot should ha>e had the run of the street: there were too many of them to be confined to ihe pavements. The result was that there was no easy strolling. On the pavements one was ctowded; on the radway one was drnen into the gutter by '•ar-. Ihe sjieetacle of these hundreds of cars r>or:ii2 through the crowd, to an accompaniment of horn-blowing, must have increased the resentment against motorists. I doubl very much whether tho-e in cars cnioyed themselves so much as those on foot. consideration. Other correspondence will bt found Page 16. . - J
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 8
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185MOTOR CARS IN QUEEN STREET. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1927, Page 8
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