COMPULSORY STOP SIGN

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27035, 9 May 1953, Page 3

COMPULSORY STOP SIGN

Sir, —A compulsory stop sign has been erected on the Sockburn-South-bridge main road (Springs road) near the junction with the Main South road. There does not appear to be a valid reason for placing a stop sign at this junction of two main roads, except, perhaps, as a trap to unfortunate motorists. I am curious to know who authorised placing the sign there, why it was placed on the Sockbum-South-bridge main road, and not on the Main South road (where drivers have to change direction at this junction); and under what regulation the compulsory stop sign was erected at this junction. —Yours, etc., CURIOUS. May 5, 1953. [When this letter was referred to the chief traffic officer of the Transport Department (Mr E. Wilson) he said that the sign was authorised by the Minister of Transport (Mr W. S. Goosman) on the recommendation of the local body concerned, in this case the Papurua County-Council Mr Wilson said t}ie Main South road carried a large volume of traffic, and it was felt that the stop sign thebe was serving a useful purpose, particularly in eliminating any doubt .about the right-of-way for traffic at the junction. The erection of the sign was authorised under the Traffic Sign Regulations, 1937. regulation 3, clause 5.1