KEEP TO THE LEFT.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 11

KEEP TO THE LEFT.

: TO TBB F.DI-roB O? "THE TT.ZSS." ' Si- 1 ",—I am glad to see tha: your rcI cent article on'the want of control oz | footpath traffic. has aroused the City ; Council to action. i Now that the authorities have decided | something, it i s hoped they will not be | half-hearted about the matter. At pre- | sent, to attempt to walk along Hig h I street from Hereford street to Casliel street, means the exercise of great patiI encfi and the expenditure of much | time. Women walking four abreast, | others with perambulators stock-still i conversing (they appear to have un- | limited time), then the jay walkers — it is utterly impossible to "get through the maze. In Auckland thev have set a -line ° f white tiles along ' footpaths, and the people there have become quite accustomed to the rule. There are policemen on the alert on the footpaths, and so in Wellington the people are co-op-erating and fast" becoming amenable to reason. In Wellington, so far, they have chalk lines along the footpaths. The authorities here should arrange for a course of advertising on '"'Keep to the Left," for the benefit of country people who, on coming into town, cannot perhaps be expected to fall into line so quickly.. Still, it should not take long for all to become educated to a rule that spells only comtort for those using the footpaths or sidewalks.—Yours, etc., COENS.