SPEED OF MOTOR BUSES

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 112, 9 February 1928, Page 9

SPEED OF MOTOR BUSES

SHOULD IT BE REDUCED?

TRAFFIC INSPECTOR’S RECOMMENDATIONS

If the chief traffic inspector’s recommendations in the matter of speed for certain classes of motor-vehicles are adopted, trips undertaken by motorbuses and char-a-bancs in and around Wellington are going to take a little longer than has been the case in the past. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington City and Suburban Highways Board the chief traffic inspector reported having investigated the question of speed of motor-omnibuses, and recommended that the maximum speed be twenty-five miles an hour on the Hutt Road, with a reduction to fifteen miles per hour at Kaiwarra, Ngahauranga, and Koro Koro, and not more than twenty miles per hour in any town or borough along the eastern side of the Wellington Harbour, except when passing William Park and Day’s Bay wharf, when the speed should be ten miles an hour.

Mr. H. D. Bennett asked that the matter be referred back to the by-laws committee, as it should not have come forward, in that form. Mr. D. R. Hoggard recalled that at a meeting held early last year the board decided that the legal rate, of speed along the Hutt Road oe thirtyfive miles an hour, and through Kaiwarra and Ngahauranga twenty miles an hour; but since then he had heard nothing of the decision, which did not seem to have been acted upon. The chairman: “The police were consulted. They objected to the change, so the matter was dropped.”

Mr. B. G. H. Burn said that it was true that the police were written to about the speed of cars on the Hutt Road and through the villages, and stated that it would be dangerous to sanction any increase of the existing rates of speed. The matter was referred back, with instructions to report at the next meeting.