QUIET U.S. TRAFFIC.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19485, 5 December 1928, Page 16

QUIET U.S. TRAFFIC.

I SCHEME THAT STOPS "ROAD HOGGINGS." Sir "William Beveridge, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science and vice-chancellor of the University of London, who has returned to that city from a month's holiday in the United States, during which he learned to drive a car, was very impressed by American traffic arrangements.

"The system on the other side of I the Atlantic of green and red street lights," he said, "which control traffic au oinatically without the need of policemen on each point, seemed very efficient to me. Perhaps it would not be practicable for our country, but I an sure the system obviates to a great extent the need of sounding thte horn. Traffic is quieter in America. "It is amazing how good the roads are—no hedges, no tortuous corners, and the three white lines which divide the road into up and down traffic sections, with a middle section on which to pass cars only, ensuring that there is no road-hogging. Motorists cannot remain on the crown of the road. The Americans are advanced in road conditions because they have so many more cars and longer experience than we have.

"Extraordinary progress has been made in America in the lessening of long distances. Their railways are very good; the .rank telephones are like our local lines; their roads are undoubtedly better than ours for heavy traffic, and their air mails and wireless are also well run. America, one day, I suppose, will be as small as our islands from the point' of view of communications."