Speeding Vehicles in Melbourne in the year of 1875
" ..police regulation forbids these.... a regulation, as might
be expected, not infrequently disregarded. We were told,
however, in all gravity by a citizen of Melbourne, that
when the municipal treasury happens to be low, policemen
are stationed at the crossings until a sufficient number of
offenders have been caught, carried off to the police office,
and fined to bring the funds up to the required level. "
Melbourne 1875 Note this article refers to a Horse driven carriage
Source: What we saw in Australia. 1875
by Rosamond and Florence Davenport Hill
Hoons in Brisbane in the year of 1876
" .... the larrikin
horsemen who gallop wildly round corners
of streets and across the main thoroughfares, utterly reckless of who or what may
be passing. "
Source: The Brisbane Courier Thursday 30 November 1876
Careless Driving 1876
" Another class of men
whose carelessness is crime are the drivers
of heavy vehicles - draymen, cabmen, and
omnibusmen included - who monopolise
the entire road, pull across to the wrong
side without warning, and enjoy the confusion, and oftentimes collisions, which
naturally ensue to people coming behind.
Source: The Brisbane Courier Thursday 30 November 1876
Speeding Taxi cabs in Sydney in the year of 1878
" Australian cabmen drive at a rattling pace, oftener
over than under the regulation, six miles an hour."
Note this article refers to a hansom cab in 1878
Source: Our Australian Cousins by James Inglis: MacMillan and Co.London
1880
Flinders Sreet Railway Station circa 1927 Melbourne Australia
Crowded Trains. 1881.
Sir,-About the traffic management of the Victorian railways, I recently heard a shrewd practical
man of business, well known in Melbourne, remark-
"They have not the experience out here ;
what they want is to import a man from Clapham, or Waterloo, where there is a perfect network
of rails, and where trains are in and out unceasingly. Such a man they could easily get for seven
or eight hundred a-year, and perhaps less.. He would very soon find out what's the matter."
Is not that the real remedy for unpunctual starting, overcrowded, slow trains, arriving just
too late to be in time to continue one's journey by another train, and for all the
anathematising which follows the vexation which has become too common of late?
I think so -
July15.
-Yours, &c,
HURRY UP.
Source: The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Monday 18 July 1881
Crowded Trains. 2009.
We should just get used to crowded trains.
Department of Transport chief Jim Betts said Melbourne was becoming more like London, Paris and Tokyo, where overcrowding was a fact of life.
"I'm not saying that's a good thing. I'm not celebrating it. But welcome to the Western world," he said.
"This is what happens when you have a city of four million people."
Source: Herald Sun Newspaper (Melbourne, Vic.) May 19, 2009
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