MOTOR TRAFFIC

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 11

MOTOR TRAFFIC

Durable Paving Needed Commenting on the preparations for the reconstruction of Regent Street, which was repaved in 1919, the London “Evening News” said: “If eleven years is the life of a modern London street, it means that one-eleventh of all the main thoroughfares in London must be renewed every year. Actually the proportion must be placed higher. Unless a more durable method of paving is found, Regent Street’s next surface will not last eleven years, and if traffic increases at the rate it is doing, may not last much more than seven or eight.

“It is not the authorities who are to blame, nor the ever-growing streams of traffic. The fault seems to be with the inventors. They have improved, enlarged, cheapened, and multiplied motor vehicles, but they have not improved the technique of road making. Substantially our roads are still made much the same way as the Romans made theirs. There is a fortune waiting for the man who designs a silent, non-skid road that will stand up under modern traffic conditions for even a quarter of a century. It does not seem much to ask of the men who hay invented chromium steel arid 8 metal and rubber tires and '■_ concrete and carborundum an Ib)o canite and all manner of indes fabrics and materials.