CARLTON BRIDGE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20090, 20 November 1930, Page 10

CARLTON BRIDGE.

DANGER TO MOTORISTS ALLEGED. The alleged danger to motorists, owing to tlie height of the balustrade on the Carlton Bridge was the subject of remarks made by Mr F. W. Johnston at Inst night's meeting of the General Council of the Canterbury Automobile Association. "Yon can see hall of the hood of old-fashioned cars over tho side of the bridge,'' Mr Johnston said, "but you cannot see motor-cycles; you can see about two inches of the roof- of the small pony chassis so popular now, and, on an average, you can see six to eight inches of the toof of other cars. The bridge is the most beautiful piece of work over the whole river but it should have been better from a Utility point of view than tho older structures. I am quite willing to drop the matter, but our very fine engineer, Mi A. R Galbraith, when designing another bridge in the City, will, I hope, bear 111 tnind \v>hat has been said and will see that the floor will not be so far below the balustrnding as is the case with the Carlton Bridge. I hop© that if anyone is seriously injured at the bridge, it Xvon't be one of our members " » The chairman (Mr W. R. Carey) said that at first ho thought that Mr Johnson was in the wrong, but he had gone up to the bridge and something had shot into him. and. he tlioiight, had got under him —at any rate he liad seen nothing of it Mr F. W. Freeman remarked that the municipal authorities very likely took refuge in the fact that being an intersection, the speed limit over the bridge should be not more than 15 miles an hour. He suggested, jocularly. that if one of their members was found injured, his foot would be found on the accelerator. The matter was allowed to drop.