THE MAIN ROAD USER

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21805, 10 June 1936, Page 8

THE MAIN ROAD USER

OFFSIDE RULE DISCUSSIiI OPINIONS EXPRESSED If I NELSON MOTORISTS i (THE PRESS Special Sendee.] ; NELSON. June •>' | The opinion that the offside mleSf': motorists was more honoured In breach than in observance on fMM p try roads, and therefore repealed outside of boroughs. wM JkJ pressed by the patron of the AeSfe,,.* mobile Association (Nelson), Fell, at the annual meeting. • The offside rule, said Mr FdL#jW;‘:; the side road user the right erf certain cases, over the main road U*^ To allow the main stream of Wj to be interrupted by the side *Si| user was ridiculous. With the wjF tion of the rule, signposting would * altered. The rule should be aboKsMO and replaced by a rule that In side roads as are signed the should give way. Speeds were Wt * creasing on good-surfaced eowJg ; roads and traffic from by-road* . give way. .. Mr C. M. Rout (vice-president) that the association had ret It* against giving complete right of JJH to the main road user, who shoolwg given the tip to slow down by • on the main road. He felt ttafgL South Island Motor Union showMlßi tain the offside rule at it was a good working guide " interests of safety. It was not e ship for the main road user to up, and it was the flHiL to warn the main road traveller ’’.jL., The association’s recommendeilWWfc the South Island Motor Union at a recent meeting is: "That et l i| W gerous intersections both nendHK. side roads be signposted, the association considers it xMSIIIMBb to signpost only one road it . the main road.” Jjife