Planning And Traffic

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20

Planning And Traffic

Sir,—lt is surprising that more use is not made of our buses to relieve the parking situation. Here is a suggestion which should be worth considering. Many city workers enjoy unrestricted parking in streets within five minutes walk of Cathedral square. Convert these streets to twohour free parking areas, for the benefit of shoppers, etc. Draw a circle with its perimeter a mile or more from the Square. This would tap miles of streets with ample parking space. Divide the area enclosed into segments. Run special bus services In each, starting from the Square, run non-stop to the perimeter, turn left, set down and pick up passengers for a mile or more, turn left and return non-stop to the starting point. Charge a uniform fare of 6d (ten shilling cards).—Yours, etc., OPEN SPACES. December 18, 1965.

Sir,—lf, as Seth Newell maintains, most of us would rather see a taxi in the triangle than a flower, then we must pin our hopes on the minority to rescue us from the local obsession, continually evidence in this column, with the motor-car and its ways. Pontificates on road traffic are mostly elderly, to whom a car is still the novelty of their salad days. The horse, introduced to the Americas by the Spaniards, eventually ceased to be the main topic of local conversation. How much longer are we to be bored with the motor-car? There is too much amateur tooting of the horn in the freeways of the press.— Yours, ete, ISOSCELES. December 20, 1965.