Cycle sign gets trial
Wellington reporter A new sign demoting a cycling path over, or beside. a formed road will have a trial in Christchurch. The National Roads Board was concerned that the planned painted silhouette of a bicycle on the ground might be slippery and itself prove a hazard to cyclists. But the chief highways engineer of the Ministry of Works (Mr E J. Burt I said that it was only a trial to alert strangers to rhe fact of a continuing cycleway, and to inform cyclists that a particular cycleway crossed a road and kept going.
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Press, 22 August 1978, Page 7
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