TRAFFIC IN DUNEDIN

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22995, 24 March 1938, Page 14

TRAFFIC IN DUNEDIN

PECULIAR DIFFICULTIES EXPLANATION BY INSPECTOR [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] DUNEDIN, "Wednesday In reference to the criticism expressed at a, meeting of the South Island Motor Union that Dunedin pedestrians, "will not move off the streets on Friday nights," the chief traffic inspector, Mr. McNicol, stated that Dunedin was a one-street city that had difficulties not experienced in places where traffic was divided.

Mr. McNicol said that the footpaths in George and Prince's Streets would not carry a Large number of pedestrians, and magistrates, always contended that there had to be one night of freedom for the pedestrians. The council had been compelled to make a by-law prohibiting cars to be on these streets longer than five minutes between 7 and 9 p.m. There were plenty of side streets for parking cars, but the pwint was that motorists would not walk a yard. The mayor, the Rev. E. T. Cox, stated that during a recent visit to the north he had taken note of traffic conditions in Christchurch, Wellington, Timaru, Palmerston North, Wanganui and New Plymouth, and had found that generally the conditions were similar to those in Dunedin.