GYRATORY TRAFFIC SYSTEM

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23743, 15 September 1942, Page 2

GYRATORY TRAFFIC SYSTEM

COMMENT AT TRAMWAY BOARD MEETING If the Tramway Board consistently and unanimously opposed the oratory system for traffic in J Cathedral square the system could not be as wonderful as its perpetrators thought, commentea Mr A. A. McLachlan at a meeting ot the Tramway Board yesterday when reduced bus time-tables the Metropolitan Licensing Authority were approved The chairman (Mr W. J. Walter) had said that the City Council had not been as helpful as it might have been, because it had refused to allow the Linwood buses to make a right-hand turn when they entered Square from the south, which would have made a saving of 100 miles a W Mr'Walter said he had opposed the reductions and still did so. but the ’-oard had no option. , Captain H Kitson said no one liked reducing the services, but it had to be done or the time would come wn n there would be no service at all. Mr G. Manning said the Mayor had told the Citv Council that the suggestion made by Mr J. J B. Connor. Government Transport Officer, that a right-hand turn should be permitted had not been made seriously but in the nature of an aside. On his suggestion, it was decided to inquire from Mr Connor whether he made the suggestion seriously in an endeavour to save petrol and tyres. . Referring to the City Councils refusal to permit the right-hand turn. Mr McLachlan said they should not follow the bad example of the City Council of reproaching other local bodies for their lack of co-operation.