TOURIST ROADS
A STRIKING LESSON
A short article some time ago gave particulars of the improved road access the Americans have given to Yosemite Valley, the great national "playground."" What this has meant is revealed in the traffic returns of the later portion of the winter season. In February 4340 ears, with 16,323 visitors, entered-the park over the new "all the year','road, compared with six cars acdf 19 passengers in February last year. .-■•'. .., : : . ■■
• For five months commencing last October .. 12,870 motor- vehicles entered Yosemite with 43,344 visitors, compared with 325 vehicles and 875 passengers in the corresponding period a year before. This is striking testimony to the value of good road communication as it affects tourist traffic, and provides a lesson that New Zealand should takojto heart. Something might be done in' the, nature of providing roads by, loans repayable from tourist traffic itself. . ■;,■ . . ■ .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 18
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144TOURIST ROADS Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 18
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