Traffic Lanes
Sir.—There is a black mark for the driver who deliberately goes into the wrong Lane at traffic lights. Having no intention of making a righthand turn, he drives blithely up on the right-hand side of a driver who wishes to continue across the intersection; consequently at the green light there is a neck-and-neck race across, the driver in his correct lane eventually having to give way to the interloper, and slow down so that the wrongdoer may forge ahead. This bad practice eould cause an accident. Is there no penalty?—Yours, etc., CHAS. E. ALLEN. May 20, 1963 (The Traffic Superintendent of the Christchurch City Council (Mr J. F. Thomas) said: “Where the approach to an intersection has been marked out in lanes, the driver shall drive into the lane appropriate to his intended direction of travel as indicated by the markings, on the roadway.”]
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 7
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