FIFTY YEARS AGO
QUEEN STREET TRAFFIC The necessity for pedestrians to observe the rule of the road and for cans to <jo round corners at a walking P ace was stressed in an article in the New Zkat,and Hkuat.d of August 29, ISBO. " On Saturday nights the pavements in Queen Street are now practically blocked," stated the article. " This causes many persons to go into tlie street to walk, to the imminent danger of being ridden down by butcher boys, recklessly riding about on bicycles, or knocked over by passing cabs a"' l tramears. Recently the trains had to move up Queen Street at a walking pace, with whistles going, through lines of people, who had been hustled oil the pavement. , " If the rule of the road with J e £ ar j to foot passengers were enforce' 1 - double our present population coin' walk up Queen Street with comfort. A by-law is also needed to prohibit ca or other vehicles from going r( '". n street corners at other than a walking pace."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22200, 29 August 1935, Page 8
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172FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22200, 29 August 1935, Page 8
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