THE HUTT ROAD

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 106, 6 May 1924, Page 7

THE HUTT ROAD

A GOOD JOB WELL DONE

CITY NEEDS MORE LIKE IT

SPEEDING AND OTHER BYLAWS.

} iili would like to see ' ; this/club offer-- ..,• its congratulations to the City- Council;;'"■ and the engineers in charge of the work// on the manner in which the Hutt road : ;, "surfacing has teen prosecuted,'' said' the chairman of the/Wellington Auto-7 / mobile Club, at- its meeting yesterday- • afternoon.: ■"■•"The business-like way in , ■which the work has been; done has been --: ,_ a pleasure to see. There is. no doubt that we have 'the-, right men here and; . that the'work can.be donei providing the,/'■' engineers. are given-a free hand,"as.they;/! were in.this work. Every motorist. to;/ . .whom I' have spoken is 'delighted!with;:.;,: the ■] road, and .the only thing we wantis another 30 or 40 miles like it round,/; . Wellington." . ■ ■•-/■.'•■.■. .''■'■■•.. Other members spoke in similar^strain, /' and it was decided that a letter should ba sent from the club to the City Couii-: cil conveying;) in. formal. fashion .. ; tlio. ■ - club's congratulations. .'■ ■'Various other '. matters, in connection;: '.;'•; with the road and traffic:.control were/ also: discussed. . The'1 question of „ ipush-,' cycles on.the bitumenvtrack-was ■men-( ; tioned, and hopes 'were' expressed Jtli'aty there .would be no more.{delay .in/the;■"'.';' bringing "down of. bylaws "than was ab-... solutely necessary.. There was, however,-' , :■ apparently a legal /question as to, ,whe-J .: ther: cycles could be. kept off-the track, ... btit members were of the opinion :that ill the interests of the safety of ; alt. :. road-users the cyclist; should/ keeg. to, they track specially: laid * down for- him.;. On. a. wet night it was almost impossible to ;, see a cyclist when overtaking him, arid:. -•■ accidents, were bound to happen sooner > - or later. A suggestion; was made -that ally-, cyclists shcfuld at least be compelled;.;pelled;.; to „ \ carry a red disc on the rear mudguard,; that motorists - would be vable- to ; pick /-. them up at night. ; ■ . !. . . ; .' After some, further, discussion, upon ;:■ the general -.question of: bylaws;it was : •'.■. decided that a request .should/be made":';' to the council that the club: should :,be..: allowed to .co-operate with the 'Bylaws Committee' in the drawing 'up. of "regu-; ■■_ lations governing traffic upon.the road.' :■ ' MGHTIrTG OE ? VEHICLES: ;' '-\ THe chairman said .that with the win-i ■ ter so close.cat hand hewould like Eome-5,. thing done to ensure that yehicles,upon • y the road bore proper lights, by the; club itself, i£ necessary,- if it '.could, get;, > the necessary approval.;'iro'ni-,;tab. coun-:' cil. ; Motor-;lorries appeared...;tb. be .'tho;.; ; greatest offenders.-.. On his motion, -the ' meeting , agreed.;. tliixt: ■ the : secretary ... should be instructed, to /write., to the' : City .Council .asking- wheither |it .■would< :: be possible for a traffic officei1 to be on": '/: duty on the road between 5 and 6 p.nii,/ when: .the offences- were, niost numerous, V' and,: failing any;other .arrangement, that-v. the culb should agree to malce good • the expense ..to the council of carrying -;6nt'. ; such a patrol. It was mentioned that ■ on Friday evening last, between 5.30 and 5.4S o'clock, . dight .unlighte'd. vehicles. : were passed by those in a;cai-; lTinnjng ' into town. - :* .. ' .'"■:■■.'...'.■■■:,,'./. Mr. TP. Goldberg dalled attention lo" ; the danger to road users as k result of horse-drawn lorries spreading out across the road near the oil stores:. It was decided.that a letter should be forward-.'/ ed lo the Master Carueis' Association o'l the point. ■" SPEEDING. Seveial times during the dituission the question of speeding on the iiutt' road cropped up, and following the rradiuT; of a letter fiom Sir. Scobio MatKenzie it was decided that all members of the club should be circulated prior to tho date of the next lace meeting calling upon them to observe thespecd limit and to lefiibe to overstep that limit, in accordance with the suggestion made by Mr. MaeKenzic. Mr. C. M. Banks expressed the opinion that the greatest, danger, came from the motorist who would break, from the line, pulling out aud endeavouring tol thrust his car in again when other traf-' fie was met. Theie should be eoiuo means of effectively preventing that sort' of thing on days when traffic was heavy