Master Traffic Plan
Sir,—Congratulations to the City Planning Study Group for Liieir excellent articles and to “The Press" for giving valuable space and comment The citizen perceiving glaring faults in the traffic plan may lack training to propose alternatives. Clearly this is an engineers’ plan, but the engineers (Mr Somers included) are not experts on sociological needs and forecasts on which their plans are based. The assumption that traffic must increase more than twice as fast as population is fantastic. Why take it for granted that the unlimited use of private motor-cars supersedes other human needs, and that our first choice is to promote its free flow with elaborate motorways and costly parking facilities? Why not seek means of discouraging unnecessary traffic, including the pattern of one-man-one-car-into-town? Let’s try free public transport. Probable result: many cars left at home, an efficient bus service, and smaller all-round cost.— Yours, etc.,
ELSIE LOCKE. February 23, 1963.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 7
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154Master Traffic Plan Press, Volume CII, Issue 30065, 25 February 1963, Page 7
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