BRITAIN'S MOTOR ROADS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 331, 17 April 1928, Page 7

BRITAIN'S MOTOR ROADS

EXCELLENT. BUT TOO WIDE “The great motor roads running from London through the Midland Counties to the North of England and to Scotland are magnificent,” said Dr. Phillips Turner, who arrived in Wellington by the Marama recently, after taking a post-graduate course at Edinburgh University. “In fact, they are so good that they take away a good deal of the sport, for you know you will get home again with very little trouble.” Dr. Turner said the great North road was so wide that in the dark it was apt to be very confusing, for one could not see the edge of the road, and therefore could not tell whether one was on the proper side or in the middle of the road. The surface was black, very much like the bitumen roads, and sometimes it gave one an uncanny feeling, not knowing what part of the road one was on. The Automobile Club kept men permanently on the roads on motorcycles, equipped with tools for repairing purposes, and where members had a break-down on the road .they effected repairs on the spot, if possible. There was always help for anyone in trouble. He compared the ceaseless flow of motor traffic in England with the position in Vienna, where in comparison the number of motors is very small to what if used to be. for the Austrian capital is not the prosperous city that it once was.