SHUNTING ON MAIN STREET.

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 7

SHUNTING ON MAIN STREET.

- I (To the Editor.) Sir, —Your correspondents are to be thanked for drawing attention to the monstrous infliction imposed upon the people of Hamilton by shunting over and holding up traffic on the main thoroughfare. The people are indeed well steeped in the slough of complacency or they would not tolerate It. Hamilton is a town, not a village, and the blockage of traffic is a serious thing. The number of cars, lorries, and other vehicles held up when a long train'puses over the crossing is often a revelation to the onlooker as to the business of the street and every holdup is a loss to someone. Now that the matter has been so pointedly referred to, it is to be hoped that some representative body will take it up. There will probably be a few rebuffs, Nut importunity and perseverance will work wonders. Mr H. Sterling, the general manager of railways, is well conversant with the position, and I feel sure if representations are made to him he will recognise the reasonableness of the request to mitigate to a minimum cross-Victoria Street traffic, | and if possible eliminate shunting ; completely. But the citizens, if necessary, should “hammer, hammer, ham- j mer on the hard hard road” of official 1 Indifference. Persistency will make an I impression.—l am, etc., VULCAN.