Attack on driving
Concern about bad driving in the city—specifically youths in “cars with rowdy exhausts and squealing tyres”—was expressed to the council of the Automobile Association (Canterbury) last evening by Mr E. R. Casbolt
Traffic patrols were doing a “terrific job” in the suburbs, but he felt more could be done in the city, Mr Casbolt said. He particularly complained of squealing tyres and said that drivers who squealed their tyres should be warned. After the president (Mr T. D. Craig) and the speakers had said some tyres, radialply tyres in particular, could squeal at quite low speeds, Mr Casbolt said he should have expressed his complaint about bad driving. He had probably put his complaint wrongly, he said, but many young drivers took corners at much too fast a speed.
Mr Casbolt said he also thought there should be more policing of pedestrian cross-
ings in the city, preferably with traffic officers using loud-hailers to warn pedestrians when they transgressed.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32541, 26 February 1971, Page 1
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