AMERICAN CITY TRAFFIC
What would be a nightmare for the organisers of Christchurch's Safety Week was described by Mr. C. G. Parish, who has returned from a tour of American cities. In New York he saw traffic crossing the intersection of sth Avenue and 42nd Street at 40 miles an hour. The whole city's traffic moved with the lights and obeyed them promptly. In Market Street, the main street of San Francisco, for a mile and a half every intersection had five streets converging on it On the left at each corner were one street coming on aft right angles and two diagonally from the right. Market Street itself had four tram tracks. There was plenty of bumping in the city, and Mr. Parish hardly saw a car with undamaged fenders.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 13
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131AMERICAN CITY TRAFFIC Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 153, 2 December 1938, Page 13
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