TRAFFIC CENSUS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 13

TRAFFIC CENSUS

AUCKLAND DISTRICT

MAIN HIGHWAYS TALLY

\ll traflie passing over the main highways of the Dominion is to be checked by the Main Highways Board, and a start was made in the Auckland district at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. Co-oporation is being given by., the Unemployment Board, which has authorised local bodies to permit No. o scheme workers to be employed m taking the tally, if necessary. v The census is to be taken over seven days continuously,.and three men are engaged on eight-hour shifts at each chicking point on tho highways The men, many of whom are relict workois, ) are being paid 10s a shift. ' Special sheets have been prepared for the figures to bo entered upon, and tho traffic is classified under eight heads as follows:—Mot -cars, including taxis and Government cars; trade motors in four . groups (vehicles under 2 tons, from 2 to H, Us to 6i, and over 6* tons); service cars and public buses; motor-cycles; trailers; traction engines, road plant and cycles; horse-drawn vehicles; and sheep, cattle, a"so thaftlie peak hours of traffic can be found, the census sheets have been ruled off into two-hourly periods. A similar tally will be carried out by the Main Highways Board in the last week of January next.