THE TRAFFIC JAM.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 257, 29 October 1931, Page 7

THE TRAFFIC JAM.

Waimairi Council Blames = Motorists. = THOUSANDS ON ROAD. = Who was really responsible for —- the traffic jam on the North Road jSS on Labour Day? According to both ZSZ the chairman and the clerk of the ; —— Waimairi County Council, the ; zsz: motorists themselves were at fault. Reporting to the council last evening, the county clerk (Mr G. S. Cowper) i ZS: said that the council was not to blame. j zzz: It was impossible for cars to pass in ; ■— l single file over a bad road without ; there being congestion. The cars were j five deep from Chaney’s to the Belfast zzz Road and the motorists were to blame for crowding to the right. In places - they encroached across the road until —— it was impossible for even a bicycle to :zzz get through. The traffic was unpre- : = cedented. Mr Cross: The road was under water. Surely the contractor should be reprimanded. zzz: The chairman (Mr W. J. Walter) zs= said the trouble was largely with the —— motorists themselves. The contractor —— had stated that part of the concrete work would be finished on Saturday zzz and that for carnival week there would zzz not be any trouble. There were ten zzz: thousand motor-cars on those roads zzz and it showed the great amount of traf- —— fic that traversed the Waimairi roads. = Mr Cleland: There were only three :zz: thousand cars. Mr Walter: There were ten thousand -—■ One thousand and seventy-five were —— counted passing over the new traffic bridge in half an hour.