BANKED TRACKS

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 44, 16 November 1925, Page 10

BANKED TRACKS

WORK IN ORIENTAL BAY POSSIBLE ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SPEEDING There is a good deal of objection bei.i_' raised to the work now proceeding at'l'itzgerald’s Point, Oriental Bay. At tliis point the road is being fairly steeply banked, a support being Riven on the harbour side of the road by a concrete wall which rises from nothing to a height of five feet on either side of the actual corner. Banked tracks on sharp corners are, admittedly, an easement to motor-cars and cycles, but thev are an incentive to speed, and the principle of deliberately encouraging speed on corners is held to be a wrong one. ■‘l think tile Citv Council is making a wrv grave mistake in banking the mad.” said a well-known motorist, after inspecting tlie work in progress. “Many motorists scoot round the corner too quickly as it is, and on more than one occasion there have been accidents at that very spot. Now the council is practically saying: ’We’ll bank the road so that yon can speed round the corner!’ I never heard of anything so ridiculous. Banked tracks on speedwavs are the proper thing, but I’ve never heard of the bank being applied to a citv street—for that’s what Oriental Parade is. An incentive should be given to motorists to slow down at all corners, in »i'-e citv or country, not to speed up!”