Traffic control
Sir, — Recently, I was convicted for speeding. It is going to cost me $39. It was about 5.30 a.m. and I was travelling north. I had crossed the railway overbridge at Styx and unfortunately for my pocket anticipated the open road sign only a few metres ahead. I have no grounds for complaint, but if some of the traffic officers are as sadistic as they certainly appear, why don’t they focus their attenion on those who race madly around the city in their cars and motorbikes and are much more of a safety hazard than someone who anticipates an open road sign by a few metres? Does the Ministry of Transport traffic superintendent have any comment? — Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED.
February 11, 1975. [Mr E. E. Dunlop, chief traffic officer for the Southern Region replies: “If the circumstances as stated by your correspondent are correct, he certainly has grounds for complaint, and I would be only too pleased to discuss the matter with him should he wish to do so.”]
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33774, 21 February 1975, Page 12
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