CROSSING SIGNS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 21 November 1930, Page 13

CROSSING SIGNS.

NO MOKE' GREEN FLAGS. ACTION BY RAJLWAY DEPARTMENT. As .from' December Ist next the Z use of green flags. or.. lights for the benefit of road traffics' at raUway level : crossings is to be abolished*-. ;Wh©n it becomes necessary for a crossing-keeper to use a fiag' or a liglity the colour will b& red,. .- . • . • . * Instructions, sent to the District Traffic Manager, Christchurch, by the : General Manager New ; Zealaiid Railways, state that the signals to be used by crossing-keepers are: Uv day—(l) A sign bearing the word '•Stop"; or, (2) a red flog; or (3) a hand warning signal, given by the holding up of the hand ;or _ Bv night—(l) A sign bearing the wcr<3 "stop" ; or (2) a red light either by itself, or together with the "stop sign to be used will have a yellow ' background - with the letters "stop" on it in white crystal discs. The sign will be between two and three feet long and the letters'will be of luminous material so that they will show up when the lights of an aj£» pronehing vehicle strike them. As pedestrians do not carry lights, it is jjossible that the sign would not be seen by them, but in order that they should hot remain m 'ignorance of the proximity of a locomotive, the cross-ing-keeper -will also carry a red lamp at night. ' * When the matter was brought under his notice the secretary of the South Island Motor Union (Mr P. R Harrran) said that both tho Union and the Canterbury Automobile' Association had advocated the abolition of the use of green lights and flags on railwnv crossings for a long time. Ho believed that the proposed change would result in a greater margin of safety being given traffic approaching crossings than was the case at present.