THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 76, 30 March 1928, Page 6

THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM.

It was not my intention to carry tki. correspondence further, but being asked fZ an explanation will try to elucidate. Acta* ing to "Stop, Look and Listen" the by-law* u» unreasonable, more especially by Hit.—Z? to twelve miles an hour. This refers to tE Mount Eden Road. The framers of tils br law are therefore unjust and unreasonable, art any other municipal body which restrict* tfan is unreasonable and unfit to hold its positkaL Twelve miles an hour means 5.8 feet Mr second. Motors generally are at least one t« in weight. Why should a mere pedestrian object to be hit by such a weight going at gnrV a trifling speed ? I suppose, from a motorist's point of view it is not worth grouching ov« He or she in their joyous speed of, say, thirtv miles an hour (or 14.6 or so feet per second) fed so exhilarated that they forget Hhere is sueb an insect as a pedestrian crawling at the r»te of two feet per second. But to answer his question about the unequal execution of tin by-laws, the pedestrians not being pro6ecnted with equal vigour (or does he mean rigour?). Well, I should say, firstly, that after an in! fringement of a by-law the pedestrian does not interest himself or herself in anything bat a neat slow-going motor hearse. A summon would nojt be served where he has gone. Sti«mld he or she escape with life it is found *M. being a pedestrian, he is too poor to keep a motor car and is not worth powder and shot* and thirdly, when the police have finished the inquiry at the hospital it is found that it was not the patient who had been speeding and that any damage done to the motor as by the collision could be recovered by enfl procedure, and that the patient had been sufficiently punished. CRIPPLE.