Physical description

Report - 26 pages, printed, contained and stapled within a grey "Roneo Numeralpha System" folder, titled "Report on Traffic Congestion", containing a Victorian Parliamentary Report, dated 1919 with titled "Report of Board appointed to investigate the problem of relieving congestion of traffic in Melbourne."



Full title "Report of Board Appointed to Investigate the problem of Relieving Congestion of Traffic in Melbourne"



The Board or "Traffic Board" comprised 5 representatives of Councils, MMTB, Railways and the Public Works Department includes comments on growth of Melbourne, railways, tramways, new arterial roads, subways, new bridge at Spencer St, regulation of street traffic, looks at new tramway routes, hours works and provides a summary of recommendations including drawings for new arterial roads, graphs and roads / tramway layouts in two chain wide roads.



Note: This document is available as a pdf on the Parliament of Victoria website.



Second copy - unbound as printed, stapled on the left hand side, from McComb collection, box 10 - added 5/1/2017.



added a 2nd copy from Russell Jones (28/05/22). Poor quality copy.

Inscriptions & markings

Has in ink on the bottom edge "17th June 1919", Copy 2 - "H. Lormer"? in ink in the top right hand corner.