DAMAGE OF ONE-WAY TRAFF

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 22 January 1927, Page 14

DAMAGE OF ONE-WAY TRAFF

The rapidity with which “one-,way traffic’’ is being adopted has already presented an unlooked-for problem to many property-owners, especially m districts where a very heavy motor traffic is in existence, and that new problem is a vibratory one, says the London correspondent of. the Manchester Guardian. The United Service Club in Pall Mall has already been badly affected. The theory seems to be that the old “both-wavs” traffic produced vibrations in traffic-congested districts which had the effect of minimising each other to some extent, so that, the effect on adjacent buildings was not too bad. But it seems that the new “one-way traffic’’ has a tendency to set up constant vibration in one direction only—to the detriment of the buildings lining such routes. This has opened a new avenue to inventive brains, and it is said that already a preventive has been thought out and that rubber enters into the new process. A provisional patent has just been (wanted, and it covers a process which can be utilised in existing buildings equally as well as in new constructional work. The inventor is said to have the support of much expert opinion.that his new process is sound and practical.