CONTROL OF TRAFFIC

Taranaki Daily News, 19 September 1940, Page 8

CONTROL OF TRAFFIC

RAFFERTY RULES.

(To the Editor.) Sir,— I was rather interested in an article published through your columns by Inspector R. Day re the sounding of motor horns, etc. Residents of Liardet Street and adjacent streets will no doubt agree with me when I say that from 12 midnight until 2.30 a.m. every Sunday morning the air is filled with yelling hoodlums, screeching females, blaring motor horns, noisy motor-cycles, and motor-cars doing anything up to 50 miles an h'our up and down Devon Street. That is the aftermath of dances held in the vicinity — and elsewhere. I am not a kill-joy, and I like to see young people enjoy themselves. I believe that the greater majority of young people do, and afterwards behave themselves in a proper manner. Why a rough-neck element is allowed to carry on in the manner they do, beats me. What are the authorities doing to allow it? The control of traffic (or, rather, the lack of control) at New Plymouth is nothing more or, less than a joke. In practically every towai in Taranaki a uniformed inspector is kept on duty in the main street. Not so at New Plymouth. The only time a uniformed inspector is on duty is when something special is on, such as races, football, farewells, etc. The latest parking signs erected at New Plymouth must have given the inventor a headache. They are: "P" to indicate parking, "N.P." "Day or Night" to indicate no parking, day or night. Evidently the majority of motorists interpret as: "Parking New Plymouth, day or night." It is, in my opinion, high time . that traffic inspectors be kept on duty continuously, and that those who break the by-laws be punished, irrespective of who they are. I maintain that in no time motorists, cyclists, pedestrians and other traffic would soon be educated as to what is required of them— I am, etc.,

New Plymouth, September 17.