TRAFFIC CONTROL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 201, 14 November 1927, Page 13

TRAFFIC CONTROL

MR. G. R. HOGAN’S ADDRESS; GROWTH OF DEPARTMENT Traffic control in the city was the i subject of an address given by Mr., George Hogan, chief traffic inspector.! at the Rotary Club’s .luncheon to-day. He traced the growth of the traffic, department of the council from the time its duties were to control the ; horse traffic and ; marshall proces* j sions, until it took j over the full con - | trol of all traffic in 1926. The rigid test of ability in Auckland was up to the standard of main cities in Australia, he said. Licences w e r too often given to people who should never be allowed them, and the result was a big increase in accidents. The traffic inspectors refused to giv«, licences to drivers who started the car ' like a greyhound bounding after a tinhare,” and to those who did not put | their hand out to signal. The three j most important signals to Mr. Hogan’s! view were “turn to the right,” “stop” ; and “go ahead.” i Thirty miles an hour was a fair ! speed on a highway, for the car was | then under control. Mr. Hogan told some amusing stories of offenders agiiinst traffic by-laws, including one of a 60 mile an hour speedster who on being caught said. "I’m sorry, I didn’t know you chaps were after me. I would have done 75 m.p.h., because I want to sell this car.” Mr. Hogan said that children, who were the motorists of the future, would have to be given instruction in traffic knowledge in the schools one of these days.