SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC
CONTROL OF MOTOR RUSES. SYD.NET. January 27. The far-reaching Transport Hill, now before Parliament, and which will practically revolutionise the control of
traffic ill Sydney, has caused quite a stir. Motorists, who have already been protesting loudly hut in vain against the filching of the funds raised tor the main roads, now fear that they are going to have their freedom curtailed under ibis new measure. One provision of the Hill, however, which i-, generally welcomed, is that which will make drunken drivers <>i motor vehieieliahle to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month. Not a lew in the community think that, the term ought to lie a little longer.
The provisions ot the Bill, which have aroused criticism. are those authorising the appointment of a Transport Hoard, consisting of the Railway Commissioners, who will be empowered to operate motor-buses in competition with privateiv-owned services. to require tile insurance of passengers in public vehicles, and to control general traffic. The Bill is interpreted as an attempt on the part of the Governmeitt to wipe out the private buses. The proposal to invest the Railway Commissioners with the role of a Transport Hoard, with the control generally of traffic, is regarded as absurd. The position in some resnects is Gilbertinn. Under the new Railway Rill, the wings of the Railway Commissioners are to he clipped. One at least of them might lose his job. Under the Transport Bill. on the eontrarv. the Commissioners who are so unpopular with the Party in office, .arc to bo given additional power to control fresh matters, and to handle truf tic problems of which they probably know very little, since their iob i- to manage the railway and tramways. The general fear is that the police are to tie given a back sent in the control of traffic. The Railway Commissioners will certninlv have their hands full if they are to have the dual task of seeing that the railways and tramways p?v their way. and of coping with Sydney’s colossal traffic problems.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1927, Page 1
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356SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1927, Page 1
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