RED MOTOR TOLL

Hokitika Guardian, 25 May 1929, Page 6

RED MOTOR TOLL

SYDNEY’S TERRIBLE RECORD. SYDNEY,- May 15. Even Sydney, somewhat blase nowadays in its attitude towards motor accidents as it side steps and jazzes with death every minute of the day in the city’s maelstrom of traffic, got something of a shock a day or two ago to 11-arn that last year 350 people ’were killed ill mot .r mishaps in the metropolis, and that more than 5600 people were injured. ' This tragic till is due, in some censure, to motor drivers, and in cases .<> unni-eosnry risks taken by pedestrians. The underlying cause of it generally, however, is a traffic pronlem which lias been awaiting elfective solution lor years, and which is daily ’incoming worse. The mountain ol talk in- Slydiicy over the question of traffic reform- has not brought lortli even the guru live mouse. Sydney is only tinkering and toying with its traffic ; j-jjb-iemK. As long as it adopts a aissoz Mai re attitude towards a big bold scheme of reform the tragic loss if life.- will increase. The human aspect apart, proscrastinntion in this matter, is a fatuous economic waste, for, however, costly new traffic arteries. for example, might he to-day, they will ho iininoasiirnby more costly the longer reform is merely talked about.