NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 8

NEW TRAFFIC SIGNALS

Try-out at Queen’s Wharf Entrance Gradually tlie new electro-matic tarf-fle-actuated signal lights at the entrance to Queen’s Wharf, Wellington, are being prepared for their dally task. There has been some slight delay, caused through one of the steel contact plates getting out of alignment ou the voyage out, but that trouble has been overcome, and yesterday afternoon the current was switched on, and the signal lights appeared as the traffle passed over the “pads” (ou top of the steel plates, which make contact under pressure) and actuated the lights. A second or two after a lorry passed over a pad, the green light appeared, to change to red as soon as the traffic from one point changed. The lights (60-watt lamps) are in black and white metal cowls, the middle one (amber light) being painted white, for no other reason than that it is done in England. Similarly the pedestrian press-button traffic-control standards are painted in aluminium paint, with a tangerine-coloured cap—a replica of the Hore-Bellsha standards in London. Experiments will be carried out for the rest of the week, and it Is probable that the new system of traffic control will not be practically tried out until early next week.

(Pictures on page 7.)