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Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 10

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The motor exhibition which used to be held in Christchurch during Carnival Week is being revived this year. It is reported that members of the trade are entering into the arrangements with enthusiasm. In certain main streets of Blackpool parking has been prohibited owing to the congestion caused by waiting vehicles, but motorists are allowed to leave their cars for limited periods on the left side of the road on odd dates and on the right on even dates. The order prohibiting parking was made under a local Act passed 56 years ago!

autostrada lines, each with its footpath and cycle track. This would be no case of wild spending, for unlike nearly every other source of revenue, motoring must inevitably continue to increase.”

When some of us were younger it was quite common walking along the old macadam roads for a pedestrian to step aside from the best of the surface, leaving it for a passing cyclist to use. To say quite common is really to understate the case; the practice was universal. Similarly, vehicular traffic (of other sorts), invariably considered the cyclist, and many horse appeared under the motor. At first we drivers considered also the pedestrian —not all horse drivers, however. Road courtesy has almost completely disappeared under the motor, at first we had a new kind of knights of the road, or cavaliers; nothing was too much trouble in the way of rendering assistance to other road users, and drivers were eager always to pick people up and carry them along. The motorist of those days, however, knew what trouble was; his trips were punctuated with it. He is less prone to-day to offer lifts; he is the asked, not the asking, now. One cannot quarrel with this attitude; there are many reasons —excellent reasons—for it, but there is also another, plain selfishness and inconsiderateness. Lifts did not begin with the motor vehicle; they are dying with it. No waggon or dray, or even farmers’ trap, ever passed a pedestrian without offering a lift. The same applies to roadside assistance. There are still cavaliers, but all are not cavaliers. It is true, too, in regard to use of the road. There are knights who respect the presence of other people; many