Traffic Control

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30678, 18 February 1965, Page 12

Traffic Control

Sir, —Absolute accuracy describes Mr Kerr’s report that “the official approach to drivers here was entirely wrong. They are treated as children.” Official treatment of the motorist is mostly punitive, with little emphasis on education. Driving here is that of 30 years ago—seem-

ingly in terror of the nearside kerb, and no idea of double-line driving between intersections. Hyde Park Corner is the busiest intersection in the world. There is nothing like it in the United States. From there, in the heart of London, to the Marble Arch eight lines of traffic in Park Lane often travel between 50 and 60 m.p.h. The New Zealand 30 m.p.h. limit is justified where intersections are close together. Radar traps operate on safe open roads lacking dangerous intersections where most “customers” can be secured. The long lists of these “law-breakers” frequently published prove that this 30-year-old 30 m.p.h. regulation, like Prohibition in America, should be drastically amended.—Yours, etc., MOTORIST SINCE 1908. February 16, 1965.