TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 2 December 1933, Page 12

TRAFFIC PROBLEMS

BESEARCH BODY PROPOSED. NATIONAL INVESTIGATION DESIRED. Based on the loss of time duo to slow traffic, and on the damage to vehicles and loss of life from accidents, an estimate was given some years ago by the Commercial Motor Users’ Association at Home that the cost to the London community alone was £25,000,000 a year. Many sound judges, however, regarded the figure as an underestimate. At the present time many engineers are beginning to press for the appointment of a research commission to probe into the whole question of roads, traffic control, and traffic flow. As things are, various authorities are spending money almost, daily on what are merely experiments, here to-day and gone to-morrow, with nothing of definite scientific character attached to them. The commision suggested would be on the lines of the existing Aeronautical Research Com-1 mittee. It would be devoid of any oxe-1 cutive powers, but merely initiate and I conduct research into what actuallv is a very complicated matter, as every-! one who has given the least serious consideration to the problems involved must abundantly realise. The world long ago reached a stage at which definite scientific attack on ills involving! heavy drain on wealth and life hasj proven itself, and the economic nosition suggested by the figures above I are such as to vindicate the energeticeffort being put forth to gain a concerted national investigation into the subject ns a whole.