Speeding Traffic

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31231, 1 December 1966, Page 16

Speeding Traffic

Sir, —It is high time the traffic department saw the fallacy of creating race tracks in our cities just to get rid of in-and-out-of-work traffic. The law is 30 miles an hour, but I fail to see very many cars travelling less than 40 to 45 miles an hour on the stretch from Carlton Mill road up Rossall street round the unobstructed (to them) bend into Wairarapa terrace and continue at speed up Strowan road into Wairakei road. The first halt is the stop sign at Idris road. This type of stop sign creates a veritable death trap to all people living either side of Rossall street. One takes one’s life in his hands if he dares to cross. Either the stop sign at Leinster road will have to be altered or a two-way radar patrol 12 to 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.— Yours, etc., CHRISTCHURCH CITIZEN. November 17, 1966. [Mr P. G. Scoular, the city engineer, replies: “It is inevitable that major traffic routes will inconvenience adjacent residents. One of the principal aims of planning measures in use here, and in cities throughout the world, is to minimise this nuisance and to achieve a satisfactory balance between the interests of the homedweller and the interests of the motorist. The traffic department, in referring this letter to me for comment, assures me that appropriate enforcement measures are being taken and state that its most recent microwave checks show no evidence of excessive speeds on this route.”]