STEADY INCREASE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 225, 23 September 1938, Page 16

STEADY INCREASE.

AUCKLAND TRAFFIC.

SURVEY OF POSITION. MORE REGISTRATIONS. Steady increase in Auckland traffic was commented upon by the city engineer, Mr. J. Tyler, in reporting to the Auckland City Council last evening, when he presented a traffic survey for 1038. Mr. Tyler said that the survey had been conducted with a view to ascertaining the general trend and distribution i>f trnffic, so that when the council was ;ire|»are.l to give consideration to traffic outlets, in connection with the statutory town-planning scheme, the necessary data would be available. Registrations of motor vehicle* within the whole of the area, comprising those portions of the geographic counties of Kden, Waitemata and Manukau, which fell within a radius of approximately 13 miles of the Chief Post Office, for the year ending December 31 last, included 2.">,441 motor cars and B705) motor vehicles. In the tally taken there had been notable increases in traffic at Anzac Avenue-Alten Road, Hobson Street-Victoria Street, Remuera Road-Broadway, and King's DriveFrench Street, but the results at the Grafton Bridge intersection were substan't iallf the same as last year.

The engineer added that the analysis showed that the largest increase had been registered by motor cars, particularly during the pa«t Ave years, and the former increase in commercial trucks seemed to have been arrested. The steady decline in the use of motor cycles continued, but trams were more or less maintaining their position in relation to other traffic. The proportional use of buses was still on tlie decline, but previous records showed that the volume of passengers handled had. on the whole, increased steadily. Pedal cycles were on the decline, and horse-drawn traffic had practically vanished from the streets.

Mr. Tyler considered that in connection with general directional trend there had not been a pronounced movement in any particular direction. The immediate problem was to deal with internal traffic by relieving the busier intersections. The extension of Upper Queen Street had relieved the position in Svmondfl Street, and the proposed extension of Nelson Street would relieve the junction at Pitt Street and Karangahape Road.