SAVING THE ROADS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 10

SAVING THE ROADS

Consideration by the City and Suburban Highways Board of Hutt road traffic control arrangements has raised the important question of heavy traffic regulation. . It is most necessary that heavy traffic should be watched. Overloading and excessive speeds will quickly damage even the so-called permanent pavements. As weight tod speed,are increased so does the road surface damage become greater, unless the thickness of the pavement is increased correspondingly. If we could afford lo lay pavements sufficiently thick to carry the fastest and heaviest vehicles now. on the road there would be no need to worry —until the .traffic became heavier, still, i But we are learning that ihere is an economic limit to such capital expenditure and that there niust be some control of rising weights and speeds. If this can be effected by arrangement with the police, who are now, responsible for general traffic control, so much the better. If not, it must he attended to otherwise. This does not necessarily involve the appointment of a full-time second officer. It would be sufficient in the meantime if a city traffic inspector were to give the highway his attention from time to time.