CONGESTION OF TRAFFIC.

Evening Star, Issue 22454, 26 September 1936, Page 12

CONGESTION OF TRAFFIC.

TO TUI BDITOI. Sir, —Since reading with some interest Mr Breen’s scheme for doing away with the congestion caused by motor cars I have been curious enough to carefully note the so-called congestion, and the question I would like to ask is where are the motor cars referred to? It occurs to me that if the City Council stops all motor traffic between Water and Rattray streets our city will appear to visitors even more dead than it does at present, and_ we shall fare very badly in comparison with the three northern cities, and I am sure that even Cr Batchelor is not jesirous of that. Then again the City “Council collects in rates huge sums from retail traders whose stores are situated between these two streets, and should take no further action which is likely to deflect trade from these stores. The restrictions on motorists already in force are making it difficult enough for them to trade in town without anv further ones, and it is to be hoped that the City Council _ will remember this when giving consideration to Mr Breen’s scheme. May I suggest that if there is any congestion in the quarter named it is caused by the trams, and could be got over by building another safety zone opposite the on© already built at the Stock Exchange, and then all trams could stop there and cut out the stops at the Bank of New Zealand corner and Rattray street, and an .automatic switch, could

i be installed for the Castle street trams. Or, better still, why not pull up all the rails and replace the trams with motor buses, which would prove much more convenient and profitable? —I am, etc., Move with the Times. September 24.