TRAFFIC CONTROL

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17291, 1 November 1921, Page 6

TRAFFIC CONTROL

NEW REGULATIONS. The By-laws Committee of the City Council last night recommended that the decision of the Council defining the course of the footpath across street intersections be carried out aB soon as possible at the following intersections: —ln Colombo street, from Armagh street to Cashel Btreet; at the intersection of High and Cashel streets; at the Clock Tower corner; also that notices be erected notifying pedestrians that they must cross such intersections within the lines so defined, in accordance with the by-law relating thereto. In tho matter of the regulation of traffio by the Bank of New Zealand, the committee recommended the Council to make a by-law prohibiting all vehicular. traffic from using that part of Colombo street between Cathedral Square and Hereford street, between the hours of 7 p.m. and 9.15 p«ni. ofl Fridays. exp i a ined that the line of blocks across Hereford street at Manchester street was the first of a system of crossing-places ior pedestrians in the city. When the crossings were all laid out, pedestrians would have to use them, and will be committing a breach of a by-law m crossing a street corner in any other way. Cr W H. Winsor said it would be necessary to have someone to control the traffic at the corners The Deputy-Mayor said it would do necessary iii time to have a policeman on duty at the corners to direct the trniHc The report was adopted. The Traffic Committee recommended that the Christchurch Carriers' Association, the Pioneer Sports Club, and the licensed motor-car drivers be invited to nominate a representative to act on the committee Tho secretary of the Motor Garage Proprietors' Association, Canterbury branch, advised that the president, Mr D. Crozier, had beerf nominated tor a eeat on the special committee set up to consider traffic regulations.