TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 11 September 1945, Page 4

TRAFFIC REGULATIONS

(To the Editor) -sir,—Car owners of Allan street have received a letter from the Town Clerk which seems to indicate (considering the short-sighted policy of past and present councils based in part on the bullock wagon days) a sudden awakening out of a trance to find that upper Allan street is too narrow for heavy motor traffic. The letter states that the council may be compelled to make Allan street a non-parking area. Sir, the council seems to be taking the least line of resistance, as the fault lies with the council, who own land on the corner of the junction and if this was cut back heavy traffic would negotiate the corner with ease instead of having to cross over to the right hand side of the road (a breach of the bylaw) and then reverse the full length of upper Allan street, a procedure that is wrong. What driver can see on both sides of the road when in reverse? Allan street is without a footpath or channel, and children are compelled to use the road. ,%e council would be better employed if it studied safety first, and made provision for the children. What is the use, Sir, of showing school children films of road safety for when they leave the class room they must forget what they have learned, because Allan street does not possess a footpath? It appears to me, a case of studied neglect and the time may come when some child may meet>with a fatal accident. Will the council accept the responsibility? Nelson founded in 1842. Nelson had six members of Parliament. Nelson also included Marlborough. What of Nelson to-day? Do not stir up the past; the pioneers had vision, while the council of to-day seem more like Old Man River, “don’t do nothing, but just keep rolling along.”—l am, etc., PROGRESS. Nelson, 4th September.