MOTOR TRAFFIC CONTROL.
The partial annihilation of distance by the rapidity with which motor vehicles move has made the maintenance of roads a national rather than a local question, and with good effect. The next stop will be the unifying of the control and regulation of motor traffic. Under present conditions the travelling motorist “don’t know where he are.” In travelling from Auckland to Wellington, or from New" Plymouth to Napier, he passes through quite a number of districts under the jurisdiction of local bodies which have more or less widely varying regulations, and he may find that -while observing the rules current in his own district he is breaking those of some other district he is passing through. In many matters centralisation of authority is anything but desirable and may lead to conflict and dissatisfaction. There is, however, much to be said in favour of bringing the control and regulation of motor traffic under one authority, and the decision of the Government to place it under the authority of the Public Works fiepartment may be welcomed. —Taranaki Herald.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19867, 15 June 1927, Page 7
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179MOTOR TRAFFIC CONTROL. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19867, 15 June 1927, Page 7
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