MORE SPEED.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19545, 15 February 1929, Page 10

MORE SPEED.

THE MODERN TENDENCY.

REPORT TO N.I. MOTOR UNION.

[THE PRESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, February 14. An inrreaso of at least ten miles an hour in the speed of motor traffic daring the next ten years waa forecasted at the half-yearly meeting of the North Island Motor Union to-day by the Wanganui delegate, Mr I. V. Wilson. "Super-elevation should be provided on eorners to carry heavy traffic tip to 45 miles an hoar," said Mr Wilson. Evidence of the modern tendency of motor-car construction to provide for safe travelling at ever-in creasing speeds was submitted in a report from the Wanganui Automobile Association. The report suggested that super-elevation on highways should be basea on the margin of safety over and above what was considered would be the maximum speed a motor vehicle would be likely to travel a curve in, say, ten years' time. The Wanganui Association denied it was advocating a higher rate of speed, and stated if sufficient ieargin were not provided there was a tendency to make motorists hug a corner, which wai a source of danger. A possibility on a greasy two-way corner was that a man travelling at a higher speed than super-elevation provided for, might skid and possibly collide with a motorist on the outside, travelling at normal speed. A careful motorist was entitled to a larger margin of safety. It was decided to send the report to the Main Highways Board.