TIME AND SPAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 24 March 1931, Page 11

TIME AND SPAGE

SOME TRAFFIC; WASTE

, "I "hotico in Wellington that, every time a tram stops, every other vehicle behind it has to stop, too," said Mr. Bees Jeffreys, secretary-, of the- first British Central Department, for Bbads; in an address to the Eotary Club to-day. "What I wonder," he asked, "is the daily loss of time and capital caused by this hold-iip of otljer traffic by reason of the tramcar! How soon will it be beforo the scrapping process extends to New.Zealand?. There is also the problem of parking cars. Ground in the city is very valuable. The roadway lias probably cost as much as 15s per square yard to surface. It is impossible to ;jußtify such expensive land being used by unoccupied cars. '"This.problem," he said, "is bound up with the ques.tion-of city planning, to which increasing -.attention is now being paid both in 'England and the United. States. . . You in. Wellington have special difficulties to contend with by reasoi of your physical conditions. The whole question of city planning is no .doubt,receiving from the authorities most careful consideration. You have in Mr. Mawson, the 'Government Town P-lanner, a man of, very, wide experience,; and .1 doubt not that full use is:made of his experience."