SPEED LIMIT GOES

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6

SPEED LIMIT GOES

NEW SYSTEM AT HOME The final stages of the Road Traffic Bill at Home were marked by a free vote in the House of Commons on the abolition of the speed limit, which was approved by 180 votes to 99. Mr. Morrison, the Minister of Transport, announced that he was going to urge the police authorities to provide a mobile force to patrol tbs roads, and the cost of the motor ycles and motor-cars was to come out of grants from the Road Fund. There was much discussion on the question of giving information to motorists summoned on the details of the offences. In the end, the Undersecretary for the Home Office adopted a suggestion by Sir Herbert Samuel that a circular should be issued to the police expressing a desire that the summons should specify more precisely the charge to be made against the individual. EXPENSIVE ROAD To relieve congestion in its busiest area, the city of Chicago is construct*, ing a new road, one mile long, which will cost £2.000,000. The new thoroughfare cuts through warehouses and spans railroad yards. It is expected to carry a traffic density j of 50,000 cars. A turntable is built flush with a narrow street in Paris, France, to facilitate the turning around of motorcars. It is operated by an electric motor. The plan is expected to speed traffic and prevent congestion of vehicles.