REGULATING TRAFFIC

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 119, 22 May 1922, Page 7

REGULATING TRAFFIC

A NOVEL DEVICE. An ingenious device fof regulating traffic made its appearance at five principal intersections in the city to-day. It is simplicity itself, comprising a rod attached to a trahiway pole or fitted into a socket in the ground. At the top of the rod are four arms at right angles to each other and facing the four approaches made by the intersection of the street?. Against the re<l background of each arm is painted distinctly in white the word "go.' , and on the reverse side "stop." In working, the iirms indicate ""go" to the traffic proceeding either up or down onr street, and '"stop" to the traffic on the intersecting street. By operating a lever, the constable on point duty causes the anne to move at an angle of forty-five degrees with a result that the ' : go" given to the first street is indicated to the intersecting thoroughfare, the traffic on which can proceed whHe the other in turn is called io halt. The arms can be detached from the rod when the constable goes off duty at night. The points at which this novel regulator is attached are at the intersections at Queen and Customs Streets. Queen and Wellesley Streets, Karangahape Road and Pitt. Street, Karangahapc Road and Symonds Street, and Symonds. Street and- Khyber Pass koad. The devices attracted considerable attention this morning, and several drivers were at a loss on not receiving the usual signal from the constable until they were enlightened by the man in blue. ___________