TRAFFIC COUNT YESTERDAY

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28233, 22 March 1957, Page 8

TRAFFIC COUNT YESTERDAY

Vehicles Into And Out Of City

Traffic into and out of the centre of Christchurch was counted for 14 hours yesterday during the most comprehensive count ever made in the city. It was directed by the Regional Planning Officer (Miss Nancy Northcroft) and designed to gathei’ information for long-term planning About 350 persons, many of them secondary school pupils, were engaged on the count, which began at 6 a.m. and ended at 8 p.m. The information gained in the cordon count will be of use in planning parking, traffic control and other facilities. Thirty entrances and outlets to an area bounded roughly by the Avon river to the north and west, St. Asaph street to the south and Barbadoes street to the east were each manned by two observers, one on each side of the road, At times when traffic was not dense some of the observers apparently felt the need for company, for several corners had two boys together, although they should have been on opposite sides of the street. The vehicles counted were divided into three classes—motorcars and motor-cycles including cars with trailers; trade trucks, vans, ambulances and fire engines; and buses, local and long distance. The only traffic not checked, other than pedestrians, were bicycles, power-cycles and horsedrawn vehicles.