Right-Hand Rule

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29932, 20 September 1962, Page 3

Right-Hand Rule

Sir, —Last year I ascertained from a traffic officer that the right-hand rule applies as much at the Victoria-Mon-treal-Salisbury streets intersection as anywhere else, but my own experience has it that the Victoria street traffic takes precedence. On the many occasions when I have asserted my right of way in Montreal street, whether on bicycle or in car, I have been greeted with scowls or shaken fists, and on two occasions have narrowly avoided a collision. I raise the point not out of selfish highway-hug-ging, but on a principle. If New Zealand does have a right-hand rule, and unless give-way signs are erected in Montreal and Salisbury streets, drivers in Victoria street should be courteous enough to give way gracefully to even the smallest unit of transport. Perhaps, as at Durham street, formerly angled roads add to the confusion.—Yours, etc., N.CL.

September 11, 1962. [The City Council Traffic Superintendent (Mr J. F. Thomas) said: “The right hand rule is applicable at this particular intersection, and officers of my department will be stationed in the vicinity to see that the rule is complied with.”]