ACROSS THE NARROW STREET

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 45, 17 November 1925, Page 8

ACROSS THE NARROW STREET

WALK SQUARE AND LIVE LONGER

Wellington has narrow streets, and many motor-cars, and though its traffic problem is not yet comparable with that in larger cities, those in authority consider it would be wise to train the public into the habit of crossing the streets at right angles, and not on the oblique, and to do so smartly instead of in a leisurely fashion. In some cities, in North America particularly, people are not allowed to cross streets where and how they like. There are regular defined cross-overs at street intersections, and it is only when the traffic constable holds up his hand and stems the flow of traffic in a street that people are able to cross in safety. There has been some mention'of teaching the Wellington public whefe to cross a street, by marking out in white (on the wood-' blocks or bitumen) right-angle footways.. To illustrate what one day may be done' the traffic officer has put the idea into, operation at the junction of Merccrl Street and Lower Cuba Street, where Bft. footwavs have been painted on the roads. The solution used is a mixture of used carbide and salt-water boiled up, and then allowed to cool. This makes a good white, and one which wears better than ordinary whiting.