MOTOR TRAFFIC

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10570, 28 February 1912, Page 5

MOTOR TRAFFIC

QUESTION OF REGULATION. The question of regulating motor traffic came up before the meeting of •the Mastenton Borough Council last evening, when the matter was discussed at considerable length. /O Temple was most- emphatic in lag opinion that. the rate at which motor cars travel through the main streets should 'be regulated, and considered that the v. ay sortie - ' drivers

drove their cars was a menace to publk: safety. The Government were slow to act in the matter, and he moved in the direction of a by-law being drawn up to regulate the rate of speed through the Borougli. His Worship the Mayor endorsed Or Temple's motion, and stated that the way motor cars travelled on the Taueru-Blairlogie road made it a. matter of peril for anyone to drive on the road at certain times of the day. He himself had an experience on the road lately which he was not likely to forget. He stated that wihile driving a trap on the Taueru road, a motor car travelled so quickly in passing him that he was unable to recognise the occupants, although he was sure he knew most of the motor car owners on the road. He thought some steps should be taken by all the

I local bodies of the Wairarapa to regulate the traffic, which at present was n source of personal clanger to the ordinary traveller. Crr H. J. O'Leary endorsed the remarks of Cr Temple and the Mayor, and said that on Show -day he witnessed an accident, caused directly by furious, driving on the part of a motor driver. The man—a cyclist—was thrown completely off the road, and if he was not 'severely hurt, it was no fault of the motorist. Ho also took strong exception to the age of some of the drivers of cars, who in many cases could hardly see over the front of the car. A motion was unanimously carried, that the Town Clerk he instructed to draw up a. by-law, to deal witih motor traffic within the Borough of Masterton.