DRIVERS LIKE TAR
AND THEN MOAN OVER IT
Although notice has been given of the formal closing of the Mount Victoria scenic drive and of the H/>ughton Bay Road on account of surface sealing work motorists continue to look for trouble by running over newlysprayed surfaces and then complain sadly to the City Engineer's Department of ruined paint work. They would be wiser to keep off the newlysurfaced roads or, if calls are essential in such localities, to drive with reasonable care.
The department could close streets under treatment altogether to through traffic, but in order to reduce inconvenience to those on business calls it follows a course of spraying or surfacing half-widths, and the trouble which drivers bring on themselves is generally due to want of care in passing other cars or in running over obviously new work without slackening speed. They may save as much as fifteen seconds. It may cost fifteen pounds to have the car repainted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 13
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160DRIVERS LIKE TAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 82, 4 October 1938, Page 13
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