PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
Sir, —This week will be a busy one, with both vehicular and pedestrian traffic at the very peak. Will the City Council take positive and energetic action to see that firm control is exercised? Pedestrian crossings are, in far too many cases, death-traps. Glaring breaches occur every day, and it is no use the authorities pooh-poohing this assertion. Many beside myself who are in the city for a large part of the day agree that the present policy (or should I have written the lack of one?) is little short of disgraceful in a modern city like Christchurch. Our traffic officers are not paid to stand idly by waiting for something (in other words, a serious accident) to happen. Speed fiends career madly around in the small hours, but others flout the law right in the city during the day and go scot-free. —Yours, etc., FOR GOODNESS SAKE DO SOMETHING. December 17, 1956.
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Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28154, 18 December 1956, Page 22
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