ROAD COURTESY CRUSADE

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28938, 4 July 1959, Page 4

ROAD COURTESY CRUSADE

Plans For Two*Week Campaign Drive through a red ; light in your car, forget to give; way to the right on your bicycle or cross the street only feet from a pedestrian crossing ih or around Christchurch in a few weeks and you may find a traffic officer waiting to tell you just what you did wrong.' He will be most polite about it, but in turn he will expect you to show, similar courtesy to everyone else bn the foAcL .1. J ’ It Will all be part of the courtesy crusade to begin in Christchurch on July 27 and go on for two weeks. Backing the crusade is the City Council traffic department, the Transport Department and the Christchurch Road Safety Committee. It will be the first time in this country that a road safety campaign has been based on courtesy, but the crusade committee hopes the idea will catch on in other cities and towns. During the crusade courtesywill be emphasised by radio, newspapers, posters, bumper bar stickers, window displays and special messages on road safety. Picture theatres will flash safety messages on their screens and mobile cinemas will show films on road safety around the city. Churches will also support the crusade.

K Traffic officers from the City Council traffic department and the Transport Department will explain faults to people not showing the courtesy on the reads they should.