Plea For Use Of One-Way Streets
(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, October 19. A plea for serious and urgent thinking on the subject of one-way roads was made to the National Roads Board today by Mr J. S. R. Thorn.
“We must turn our thinking to living with the motorvehicle. We are actually living and thinking against it,” he said. “We must have much more to do with one-way roads. I am quite sure that in the larger cities, traffic just could not run if it were not for the one-way system.” Mr Thorn returned today from the World Road Federation conference in London where 90 nations were represented by 2000 delegates. He said he knew there were disadvantages in oneway roads, but the advantages outweighed these. It was the only way to plan for the future in an expanding country. Members of the board expressed interest in the pro-
posal, but the Commissioner of Transport (Mr R. J. Polaschek) said: “It is outside our jurisdiction no matter how much we might like the idea. One-way roads in built-up areas are a matter for the local authorities.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31195, 20 October 1966, Page 3
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