GROWTH OF MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 8

GROWTH OF MOTOR TRAFFIC.

INTEREST>i\G RETURNS

Traffic figures on our roads at the present time, compared with 1908, as recorded at the Main South road toll, show a decrease in the one case and the period of existence in the other.

The number during the last year as comparied with 1908, have decreaseti: Horsemen bjd^7s per cent., one horse light vehicle 80 per cent., two horse light vehicle by 97 per cent., heavy vehicles by 80 per cent., push bicyles by 48 per cent. Motor cars in 190S only amounted t*& an average of two a week, compared with about thirty-six a day now. .Motor lorries were first used on the road in 1913, motor 'buses in 1914, motor cycles in 1909, and motor cycles with side chairs in 1913. Taking the number of vehicles, including horsemen, that pass along the road now, 74 per cent, are motor drawn and 26 per cent, other. '--"