HIGHER MOTOR SPEEDS ?

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 171, 22 July 1931, Page 8

HIGHER MOTOR SPEEDS ?

MORE DAMAGE TO ROADS. TRAFFIC INSPECTOR'S REPORT. "If the new regulations governing the speed *of heavy motor vehicles are adopted, local authorities will be faced with a considerable increase in the cost of maintaining their roads," stated a traffic inspector in a report to the Papatoetoe Town Board last evening. The report added that the draft regulations provided for an increase in the speed of eeven and eight-ton passengercarrying vehicles of almost 100 per cent. Buses of that weight were limited now to 18 miles an hour, but the Govenr proposed to increase the legal speed to 35 miles aii hour for all passenger vehicles up to eight tons, and for other vehicles up to 15 tons, the speed allowed would be 30 miles an hour. The inspector considered that the greater speeds, combined with the weights, would have the effect of breaking up the roads. Also li~hter vehicles would be tempted to ii -rease their speeds. He suggested that the speed oi heavy passenger vehicles should be limited to that of goods vehicles of the eame weight. The board decided to send the repor! to the Commissioner of Transport, ami OKb. io tlic member for the district, Mr. W Wk W. Mhsscv, M.P.