HUTT ROAD TRAFFIC COUNT.
ASTONISHINGLY LARGE. The tallies of traffic passing over the Hutt Road taken by the Railway Department show the amount of traffic on the road is astoniehing large. The analysis of the tally taken for 21 days shows that the traffic to or from the ten districts that use the road, and that therefore are to be charged with the cost of it, to be as follows:—One-horsa drays, 1275,- two-horse drays, 133; lorries and other heavy vehicles, 4401; light vehicles, 6352; motor-cars, 9G62- motor bicycles.-2B12; bicycles, 7215; cattle, 1838; sheep, 327; a total of 26,505. ■This tally, which takes no account of pedestrians, makes it appear that there is an average traffic of about 12G4 items per day on the road. The nnknown traffic, as disclosed by the tally sheets, was only 113 items in nil the 21 days, but this ought, to be added to the figures above, making the grand total,, 26,618. The detailed information as to how much of all this traffic used the whole or only part of the road, and also how the traffic was divided up among the districts chargeable will be supplied by the Commissioner (Mr. Shortt) in the course of a few days. -
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1630, 23 December 1912, Page 4
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204HUTT ROAD TRAFFIC COUNT. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1630, 23 December 1912, Page 4
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