REPORT ON TRAFFIC
“Barnes Dance” Condemned “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, Nov. 3 Abandoning the “Barnes dance” at controlled city intersections is recommended in the final traffic report presented to the Auckland regional authority by the United States consultants, de LeuW, Cather and Company. The “Barnes dance” system permits pedestrians at lightcontrolled intersections to cross diagonally. “This has proved to be extremely wasteful of vehicular capacity and pedestrian time,” says the report. Its elimination at several critical intersections would immediately increase the vehicular capacity by 10 to 25 per cent and would possibly result in a considerable saving in street-widening costs The report also recommends that legislation be enacted to permit drivers to make a free left turn on the red signal at outlying intersections after stopping in the left-hand lane and after pedestrians have left the road.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30899, 4 November 1965, Page 12
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138REPORT ON TRAFFIC Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30899, 4 November 1965, Page 12
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