Traffic Laws
Sir, —“Reason Why” understandably objects to being stopped for exceeding 30 m.p.h. where the “road is devoid of any traffic either motor or pedestrian, and he could have driven at 55 m.p.h. with complete safety” (the favourite haunts of the revenue-producing radar car). Yet, as he states, when leaving race meetings, etc., traffic officers encourage drivers to exceed 40 m.p.h. This action rightly prevents congestion. At Wellington in peak periods, in order to clear the city, traffic moves at over 40 m.p.h. with the cognisance of the traffic authorities. Noisy exhausts on young drivers’ cars in the Square arouse opposition because of the impression that they are travelling at twice their actual speed, but this should not prevent speed limits being raised. This is shown to be overdue when up to 128 drivers are fined in one day in Christchurch for exceeding the present unrealistic, unnecessary, greatly unobserved, and largely unenforceable speed limits.— Yours, etc., SETH NEWELL. November 18. 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31840, 19 November 1968, Page 16
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