TRAFFIC CONTROL PROBLEMS

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21255, 29 August 1934, Page 8

TRAFFIC CONTROL PROBLEMS

DISCUSSION BY BURGESSES' ASSOCIATION Traffic problems occupied a good deal, of the meeting last evening of the council of the United Largesses' Association. Mr A. Peverill presided over a small attendance in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association. After a discussion on the merits of the automatic traffic signalling system St was decided, on the motion of Mr S. W. Richardson, to ask the 1 City Council to extend the system to all intersections in the city. The council will also be asked to install the signals by suspending them over the middle of intersections if this proves to be possible, as members of the association consider this would prevent confusion between the traffic lights and the existing lights in the region of the •ignals. Members also considered that the attention of the council should be urawn to the - anger which exists from motorists who get out of their cars in city streets through the right-hand doors. Mr E. L. Hills said that thia practice, particularly in crowded Streets, was a danger to cyclists as well as to other motorists when no tfgnal was given. On his motion it Was decided to draw the attention of the council to the danger of the practice when no warning was given.