TOURIST ROADS
A STRIKING LESSON
A _ short article, some time ago gave particulars of the improved road access the Americans have given to Yosemite Valley, the great'national "playground." What this has meant is revealed in tjie traffic returns! of the later portion of. Jhe winter season. In FebruaVy 4340 cars, with 16,323 visitors, entered the p'a-.k over the new "alb the, year" road, campared with six cars and 19 pass sugars in Februarv last- vear.
For five months commencing last October 12,870 ■ motor vehicles entered •Yosemite with 43,344 visitors, compared with 325 vehicles and 875 passengers in the corresponding period a year before. This is striking, testimony to the value of good road communication as it affects tourist traffic, and provides a lei-pon that New Zealand should heart. Something might be. done in the nature of providing roads by loans repayable from tourist traffic itself.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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145TOURIST ROADS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 13 June 1927, Page 8
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