MOTOR TRAFFIC.

Shannon News, 9 May 1924, Page 3

MOTOR TRAFFIC.

ITS EFFECT ON THE HOADS. A eomitniercial man on r a light car who does the round trip Shannon, Levin, Foxiton, and Palmerston a.t frequent- intervals, and lias every opportunity to judge the relative merits of the two routes, says emphatically that the- Foxton roa,d, except on tlu? sandy foundation has much the better surface. Leisurely and frequent observation enables him to say that the Foxton road has six heavy motor lorries for every one on the Shannon road, and that each carries about the same number of motor cars. A distinct improvement is effected by tlie thirteen-inch lorry tyres, which art as road rollers. The light, fast, travelling cars, on the other hand, sweep the metal mil of each broken place fn wet. or dry weather, .and make the poj, holes which are the ruin of the- road, lie also observes .that the pot boles are all in the centre or where the road is flat, never on the .sloping sides formed by the cars pusbig the metal .outward, or on the slopes of the hills. Every road, lie says, should slope well from the centre. Another observation he. makes is that the Whitmore road was almost impassable for a motor car until the 5ton cream lorry ran over it daily and flattened, -it • out. There is at least food for thought .and investigation by all the county councils whose roads are' concerned in this slat (‘in out,Palmerston .Times. h.