TRAFFIC CONTROLLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 215, 11 September 1928, Page 8

TRAFFIC CONTROLLED.

ROAD CRAMMED WITH CABS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, this day. The handling of the traffic in Christchurch was a feature of the aeroplane's arrival to-day. Owing to the short "notice of the flight the "colour route" scheme could not be followed absolutely, but although there was a terrific crush of traffic on the Riccarton Road it was under complete control, and no trouble occurred on the way out. The news sent out by radio that the plane was at Wellington at 7.20 a.m. caused a general rush to the aerodrome. Most people had not expected the plane to arrive till about 10 a.m., but the possibility of the earlier arrival caused arrangements to be changed hurriedly. Early breakfasts were abandoned, and a great helter-skelter to the aerodromes set in, and immediately the Riccarton Road became an almost solid moving mass of traffic.

Looking down from the hangar roof, the excellence of the car parking arrangements was manifest. Serried ranks of cars stretched in good order for nearly a mile along the north and north-east side of the racecourse and the aerodrome. Every possible place which might command a view was assailed, and every now and again there was an outburst of cheering.