Traffic euforcement
I Sir. —A front page headline! !in “The Press" suggests a power road toll stemming! from increased enforcement,! but page 10 has a sorry story! of a bad month for road accidents in Christchurch. In fact, enforcement is weak ;and sloppy. After visiting !hospital. I ran the gauntlet of speeding cars in Riccarton and Hagley Avenues to find a traffic officer, his own Suzuki parked on yellow lines and a turn-! ing lane, chalking my car?
legally parked in a barely-] used 60-minute area. He was! “just doing his job,” but: surely priorities have gone! crazy when the great majority of our democratic drivers! may vote with their accelera-] tor pedals for excessive, il-i legal speeds and universal; contempt for other road, users, while a cynical Ministry of Transport spouts about “education” but handles enforcement with kid gloves—a deliberate policy of “sportsmanship” towards potential killers. —Yours, etc.. VARIAN J. WILSON. January 7, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 8
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155Traffic euforcement Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 8
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