TRAFFIC CONTROL IN WELLINGTON

Southland Times, Issue 23047, 14 November 1936, Page 8

TRAFFIC CONTROL IN WELLINGTON

COPING WITH CITY’S PROBLEMS (United Press Association.) Wellington, November 11. After a full inquiry into the working conditions and organization of the Wellington City Council Traffic Department it has been decided by the council to make several changes in the staff and generally to reorganize the department.

A report from the city engineer, Mr K. E. Luke, describes the discipline as being slack in certain directions and says that the department is over-sec-tionalized and that there is a lack of co-operation between the various sections. The report emphasizes that the department has been badly understaffed and is seriously hampered by inadequate office accommodation. Mr Luke recommended rearrangement into three main groups, namely, office administration and technical investigation, traffic control, and vehicle inspection. Mr Luke found a certain slackness and lack of confidence among the traffic inspectors in the officer at present controlling them, and he recommended that Inspector T. Broughton, as senior inspector in sole charge of the outside staff, be responsible only to the assistant chief traffic inspector. The council decided to transfer Mr G. N. T. Goldie from the city engineer’s department to be assistant inspector in place of Mr F. W. McCourtie, who is to be vehicle inspector. The department will function under the assistant traffic inspector, who will be responsible to the chief traffic inspector, who, Mr Luke said, should be given an opportunity he did not at present enjoy of devoting himself more to the administrative side of the department.