TRAFFIC IN QUEEN STREET.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 6

TRAFFIC IN QUEEN STREET.

In your journal dated September 13 appeared an article under the heading "The Traffic Problem." Mr. Taylor's statement* concerning the traffic conditions prevailing in Sydney are very interesting and true, as who have been to Sydney of late years cm confirm. Further, I think it is the duty « those citizens who have had the opportunity to travel to place before the people of their home city on their return their observations on such matters. There is no disguising the fact that the traffic control in Queen Street and round about the city is far from whkt it should be, especially in Queen Street, street, if proper traffic control was in force, would be second to none. There seem to be no regulations in force, especially with to pedestrians, and I should say, after seeing all the principal cities of the world, that in Vancouver and Auckland one is more liksjT to meet with an accident than in any other. city I have been in. If the same syste® was applied as is in vogue in sth AvenuCi New York, the whole traffic of Queen Street could be guided bv a couple of men (aa it J* a very short street). Thus, whilst the traffic continues in Queen Street, all traffic in t» streets remains stationary. Then *o*® a signal is given for the traffic in Qw*" Street to cease the traffic from the side streets gets moving, and at the same time pedestnjU" can cross with safetv. It only takes a seconds to do this in sth Avenue, New Yfltf. and should not take longer in Queen StreetIn the evening the same principle is adopted by means of lighted signals —green denoting road clear and red for traffic to I am sure our intelligent City Fathers J*** a keen desire to bring about the most snitaM* traffic control in the citv. WALTER F. DARBi.