AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC CONTROL.

Evening Star, Issue 20538, 17 July 1930, Page 14

AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC CONTROL.

TO THE EDITOR. gi rf __lji relation to tho automatic traffic control at tho ‘Star’ corner, I agree that the system which has been installed here is quite suitable for New York, Chicago, or any city where the intersecting streets are continually carrying tho maximum traffic. We have not reached that stage by any means, and in the majority of cases traffic is bold up when there is no cross traffic at all, and that is where the advantage of having a man on point duty comes in. 1 am unable to understand Cr Mitchell’s objection to the right-hand turn. He says there is tho danger of a vehicle making this turn meeting the red light on the street it is enter ing. The left-hand turn meets the same difficulty, and in both cases there ean be no objection, as they enter the clear side of the intersecting street; the vehicles waiting to cross, if there are any, are on the opposite side of the street. If this prohibition of the right-hand turn is brought into operation at other crossings the time will come when t will bo practically impossible for anyone travelling from tno north by any of the through streets to change direction west without travelling tho Till length of the city, turning, and approaching from tho south.—l am, etc. Only 1930. July 17.