TRAFFIC PROBLEMS
VICTORIA STREET AGAIN MUCH RACE-DAY CONGESTION Victoria Street again demonstrated its liability to severe traffic congestion to-day when from an early hour a growing river of cars, buses and taxis swept through Hamilton's main thoroughfare en route to Te Rapa racecourse. Traffic inspectors were out in full force but even with their assistance it was impossible to maintain an altogether free flow northward. Especially was this so in the vicinity of pedestrian crossings and most interruption seemed to occur south of the crossing at the Post Office. There the situation was complicated to a marked extent by the convergence of two traffic streams, the main stream coming up Victoria Street from Hamilton East and the other coming from Ohaupo and the south-western districts through Hood Street. One holdup caused through the passage of a small group of pedestrians over the crossing rendered immobile a line of cars 200 yards southward along Victoria Street and another almost 100 yards round into Hood Street.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20504, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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164TRAFFIC PROBLEMS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20504, 21 May 1938, Page 8
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