Automatic Traffic Signals
Sir, —The proposal to increase the use of automatic traffic signals is a matter for alarm, and I am surprised that the motoring public and the W.A.C. have not made a vigorous protest against the idea. My own objections are confined to the use of the automatic system at the Lambton Quay-Willis Street corner: (1) It does not approach the efficiency of human control. This point, I take it. cannot reasonably be disputed. (2) It is very doubtful whether the system is in fact economical as compared with the old. All motorists will agree that the waiting time is, on the average, quite doubled, and if an estimate could be made of the wear and tear, petrol, and time so wasted. I feel sure that this amount would more than cover the cost of the old system. (3) Two fewer unemployed or perhaps two fewer retrenchments should weigh in the balance in favour of control by police or inspectors. Could some authoritative statement be given on these points?—l am, etc.. W.H.S. Wellington, April 29.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 182, 1 May 1931, Page 11
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