CONGESTION OF TRAFFIC

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 10

CONGESTION OF TRAFFIC

Solution Suggested The separation of wheeled and pedestrian traffic was one thing which should be envisaged as a possible solution of the congestion problem in some Christchurch streets,Mr E. T. Beaven, a city businessman, a director of the National Airways Corporation and a member of the Christchurch Civic Trust said in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Beaven had recently returned from Austria, where he had attended the conference in Vienna of the. International Airways Transport

Association. He said a number of things had interested him on his overseas trip, but particularly the problem of transport. All cities had traffic problems. In London things had become so chaotic that they were talking of banning can from certain part of the city. Some, people living in London did not keep their can in the city but outside it. “Los Angeles is trying to do something with freeways but that is not the answer,” he said. The answer lay tn the arrangement and provision of parking. Mr Beaven said Canberra was an ideal city. It had been planned to meet the needs of modern transport. With existing cities the whole city had to be redesigned. The separation of wheeled and pedestrian traffic had been carried out in a number of the older European cities with success. Parts of what had been roads were set aside for pedestrian traffic only but to carry out such a scheme it was first necessary to have adequate parking. Such a scheme for vehicu-lar-free pedestrian areas with adequate parking had also been successfuly carried out in Miami, Florida, he said.