SPEED LIMIT.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 May 1926, Page 3

SPEED LIMIT.

A FARMER’S SUGGESTION. OAMARI'. May 22. “It seems to me that during the past few years there has been a rare between the motor builder anil the road builder, and in my opinion the road builder lias been left miles behind,” said Mr Ruilileiilau at the Fanners’ Union meeting, in referring to the necessity for controlling traffic on country roads. The present cost of upkeep was colossal, he said, and why the county councils, with all their powers, had not attempted to regulate speeding was a puzzle to him. The last few weeks of the Exhibition had proved that speeding was ruining the roads, and the council was quite unable to cope with the problem. He maintained that if tlie council could limit the speed of cars to from twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, there would be a 50 per cent, reduction in the cost of maintaining roads, 100 per cent, less repairs to ears, and 95 per cent, less accidents. He bad looked round to sec what they could lose if such a scheme was in force, and saw that all they would lose was the pleasure of fools.

A member: What was the motor tax put on for? Wasn’t it to provide money for the upkeep of the roads? Mr Ttudilenklnu: Tlie motor tax amounts to a mere fleabite. T say that anyone who wants to travel faster than twenty-five miles an hour should put bis car in the shed and take a train. It was finally decided to bring the matter up at the annual meeting in June.