EVOLUTION OF TRAFFIC.
Lord Montagu of Beaulieu holds that the competition (if road with rail, is only in its beginning, and that existing railways, are destined in many cases for conversion into roadways. It is a little less than two centuries since the earliest kind of “rail” was adopted to avoid the friction of heavy traffic offuneven and friable roads. Every fresh triumph of the roadmaker tends to make the rail maker more dispensable, ind it is , quite conceivable that the ailway line as known to us may be■ome only an interesting antiquity. It s not only Revolution, but Evolution that “devours its children.”—“The Observer.” i
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8
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106EVOLUTION OF TRAFFIC. Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1928, Page 8
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