TRAM TRAVELLERS' SAFETY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1922, Page 7

TRAM TRAVELLERS' SAFETY.

NEW MOTOR BY-LAW. STARTS OFF WETX. '■ I I The new by-law of the Auckland City ! .Council prohibiting motor ears from' pn.-isin# ntntionurv tram cars, which rami' into forop this morning, appear--10 be operating satisfactorily. As a : rule with a new by-law there are signs ; ;of confusion on the pnrt of the ; ' public, hut thi* regulation, which was | \ made for the safety of pedestrians, has Wen discussed for -mh a long while that m.-Hari-W bail had time to aceus- ' ' torn themselves to the idea. Although there i- no doubt that some motorist-* re-"tit any interf-rfni'p with their privilotto*, the (jpni'ral opinion amonjr tlie frntprnity sopmn to lulmit that something in ib:> nature of the new by-law . «n> required. It i« commonly oh-trvcfl in other parts of ths world that no progressive motorist would dream of chulleneinjr it. There is. nothing- complicated about the by-law. ; wliich Mmpiv provides that motors must , remain in the rear of a vtandiiifr tram <-n r until all pasiPnger-= have alighted iiiul hi.nrrloil. Tliis does not apply, whore the tram car is standing alonss'.li- a -afetv -zone. Tn this case the pedestrians already have n safety area to stand on. and the now by-law warn' them to keep to their own territory and not stray ovor t'le roadway set apart for vehicular traffic.