Use of crossing

Press, 4 September 1982, Page 14

Use of crossing

Sir,—ln “The Press" of August 31 we learnt of the Waimairi District Council’s proposed scrapping of the pedestrian crossing on the Main North Road close to

Daniels Road, and agree with this decision. However, we were shocked to find that there it ends. We are all mothers who use the shops and facilities around this location often and have frequent need to cross the road as the shops, telephone and post box are on one side; the Plunket rooms, kindergarten and library are on the other. Also very close by are a number of pensioner flats and the local senior citizens' clubrooms (both across the road from the shops). The simplest and most effective solution is to install lights at the junction of Daniels Road and Main North Road, giving everybody a fair and far safer chance to cross the road. Does somebody have to be killed before the necessary action is taken?— Yours, etc., ALISON COOK, LYN SCANES, GLENIS EVERTS. August 31, 1982. ■