Traffic Lights
■ Sir, —Having been away in Auckland for the past eight months, I returned to Wellington on Saturday last, and while motoring through the city was. very bewildered at the multitude of lightz and signs. On one street you cannot turn to the right, another you cannot cross over, and yet in another place you go with the red light. It seems to me to be utterly ridiculous for a town the size of Wellington to use “traffic” lights with its narrow streets and congested tramways. While held up behind tramways one sees the lights often change colours many times, and has one ever heard of trains giving wav to motor-cars? With al] this talk of unemployment, why must we replace reliable men with lamps, which can never be held responsible? At the moment Auckland has no light system, and their traffic direction department is very efficient. —I am, etc., C. B. HARVEY. Wellington, Augu»t 22.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 286, 29 August 1931, Page 9
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