UNIFORM ROAD SIGNS
AN AUCKLAND MOVE. Uniformity in road direction and danger signs is still a good way off in New Zealand. The Highways Board some years back issued a circular recommending the diamond shape sign—a square board placed diagonally. on the post—as the standard danger sign. This has been adopted throughout the United States, and is much more conspicuous (particularly at night) than the red triangle. In the Auckland districts numbers of these diamond shape signs are to be seen, but elsewhere the triangle is favoured. According to the “New Zealand Herald,” the Auckland Automobile Association is advocating the standardisation of sign-posting throughout the North Island. The move might necessitate the scrapping of a few signs, but it is worthy of encouragement.
Many of the signs in the Auckland province were erected at night, advantage being taken of this to set them at points where they are always picked out by the headlamps of approaching cars. Further south it is apparent that visibility after dusk has been forgotten. The signs are often found in some obscure place where normal lights seldom reveal them.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 8
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184UNIFORM ROAD SIGNS Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 11, 7 October 1927, Page 8
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