HORSE TRAFFIC IN CITY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 290, 7 September 1928, Page 10

HORSE TRAFFIC IN CITY

SHOULD IT BE BARRED? - ‘•The time is coming when horse traffic will be barred on the main streets —and a good job, too I These sentiments were expressed by an inspector, who was of the firm opinion that horse traffic was out of date, and in the light of inodern hygiene and' progress an intolerable nuisance. Not only that, but anything in the nature of a traffic jamb was always slower to clear when there were lumbering horsedrawn lorries in it, whereas the motordriver “stepped on it” and was away in a few seconds. “Then,” said the inspector, ‘look at the time a big horse-lorry takes backing across a footpath and into a cart- ’ dock compared with a motor-lorry. Thus they become a nusiance not only in road traffic, but to pedestrian traffic. Among the greatest nuisances on the road to-day are the horse-drawn hawkers’ carts. They are usually pulled by poor, broken-down hacks which, even when urged to do so, cannot get a move on. Yet they often get in amongst the heavy traffic, causing a flow of language. The day of the horse in the city is numbered. He was all right until the internal combustion engine came along and took away the title of “man’s best friend.”