SPEEDING ON TURRET

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXVI, Issue 14587, 4 February 1948, Page 2

SPEEDING ON TURRET

Sir—May I, through the U of your paper, draw attention Ci fact that Turret Road is becont nothing less than a speedway 1 a dangerously narrow one at'ft Local residents have compll in the past of excessive speed unmuffled metal trucks andm cyclists, and also by car drivers [ so far no action of any kind m to have been taken.

Surely our local traffic inspect could make time to exercise sg supervision over this portion oft road and so avert a state of | which is bound to end in a § accident to some resident. who, necessity, must cross the road walk on the footpath, or toi child crossing the road to pa*

The volume of traffic and i narrowness of the road are 1 factors which warrant the tigfe control by our local officers, eliminate speeding and the tot unnecessary noise created by i muffled metal trucks. The la! nuisance sometimes starts as i as 5.45 a.m. and, on occasions,! tinues until early evening.-! ; etc.,

"SAFETY FIRST;