Road Hogs And the Other Sort a Motorists Views
A correspondent enters the list against "Dad" on the touchy question of "Motor Hogs," and, incidentally, presents an unprejudiced review…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1922
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Shire Roads Grant Considered Inadequate Deputation to Government
At the shire Council meeting on Wednesday, the question of the Government road subsidy was discussed. It was considered that the present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways Defrauded Dead-head Traveller Comes to Dead End
At the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday, there were three cases brought before P.M. Clegg, of irregularities in railway travelling. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Athletic Cow Killer by Train
What a real menace to life straying stock can be, as well as an expensive nuisance to owners of gardens, was evidence at Blackheath…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tourists' Terror Road to Echo Point
Echo Point-road, from Kanimbla-street to La Plaza, is a foursome stretch. In dry weather it represents inches of dust, and in wet a good…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Millions Men On the Mountains Train Jazzes Home
Some people who came down to Sydney, in the Blue Mountains train on Sunday evening (says Wednesday's "Sun") are still wondering why…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Historic Tree. No Number Plate Waited for the Police Duty of Motorists
Dear Sir,â"Old Hand" corrects a paragraph in last week's "Echo" re Moorecourt, Springwood. "In the first place, Moorecourt was William James Hunt, motorist, of Wentworth Falls, appeared at the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday on a charge of driving a motor-car…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stranded Tourists Motor Man Slips P.M. Gives Straight Tip
A motor-hire case called forth severe comment from the Bench at the Katoomba Police Court on Tuesday, when Inspector Thomas,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gravel Quarry for Blackheath Roads
Blackheath Council on Tuesday' adopted a recommendation by the engineer to survey the gravel quarry on Shipley-road, and acquire it under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Satisfied Council Praises the Engineer Blackheath's Roads
At the 'Heath Council meeting on Tuesday, Ald. Huie asked when Leichhardt-street would be attended to. The Mayor (Ald. E. W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Hogs Nightmare Travelling Council Acting
Describing a recent motor trip across the Mountains, on his way to Orange, a correspondent of the "Herald," writing under the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lithgow Railway Station
The much mooted now railway station for Lithgow is receiving the attention of the Government, Mr. Fitzpatrick has been informed by Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dirty Railway Yard
During wet weather many persons may bee seen hanging over the fence that divides Main-street from the Katoomba railway station. From that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Main Road All Round Improvement on the Mountains
The Main Western-road, that most important artery of the Mountains, is no longer the almost unnegotiable track that it was even so near as a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cocks of the Road Go as You Please Casual Bus Men
The passenger transport problem in Katoomba has reached that stage when the votaries of a local tramway service are Justified in saying, "I told…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →East-end Roads Councillors at Walkerville Concessions to Lowlanders
At the original instance of Cr. Walker, Emu Plains came in for a good share of attention at last meeting of the Shire Council. In a report…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Isolated Megalong Teamsters Spoil Road Council Sympathetic
Megalong isolated as it is by its almost inaccessible roads, its inefficient postal service, and its useless, dilapidated telephone wire…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Music Twenty-two Yards Screech
Sixty-six feet of screech cost Charles William Richards, a motor driver, two of the best, with a chance of 14 days respite within the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our Main Roads All-round Improvement Praised by Motorists
So consistent have been the congratulations extended the Mountains governing bodies of late, on the improved conditions of their respective…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Excessive Railway Fares
Dear Sir,—I wish to enter an emphatic protest, through your live paper, against the excessive railway fares, which are slowly but surely…
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