TRANSPORT PROBLEMS.

Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18807, 1 December 1932, Page 8

TRANSPORT PROBLEMS.

DISCUSSED AT CONFERENCE. AGAINST SPEED LIMIT. (By Telegraph.—-Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The conference called by the Transport Commissioner spent the whole of yesterday afternoon discussing the proposed alteration in the motor speed regulations to provide a maximum speed of 40 miles an hour. The case for the change was put by departmental officers, and most of the time was taken up by their opponents, who desired the enactment of the English law penalising only driving to the common danger. Neither the Main Highways Board nor the police were in favour of the 40 miles an hour limit, which was defeated on a vote by a substantial majority, chiefly on the ground that .its enforcement was impossible, also that the department’s estimate of the saving in the upkeep of road surfaces was illusory. Motorists were not habitually driving at speeds In excess of 40 miles an hour.

The secretary advised the conference that the proposal had been sent to 300 local bodies. Twenty-lliree per cent. expressed themselves adverse, and 77 per cent, merely received intimation, meaning no opposition nor comment to send forward.