Ferry Road Traffic
Sir, —The answer to your correspondents who approve and defend our single-line, centre-road driving is in the current “Quote of the Week,” which is well worth repetition: “The cardinal offence of the slow driver is that he so often dawdles near the middle of the roadway and gives no thought whatever to the following traffic piling up behind him. In short, he is an unthinking obstructionist who generates trouble by provoking other drivers to risky overtaking.” No motorist is a clot; more misguided is the acquiescence of the traffic authorities in this unnecessary and obstructive driving, which is quite unsuitable and dangerous in modern traffic conditions.—Yours, etc. SETH NEWELL. May 27, 1966.
[This correspondence is now closed. Ed., “The Press.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31071, 28 May 1966, Page 16
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