NEW STREET MANNERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1923, Page 8

NEW STREET MANNERS

FOR WALKKES AND DRIVERS ALSO.

Walkers are to follow a new street £ n? n I* Z day ' ? eeP *°the Left-Pa" to the Eight, and vehicle drivers also are to be introduced to several regulaM. m^ng for safer traffic in city streets the chief points of which are that after Friday night vehicles may not turn in the busy, mid-city streets, but H"?* if 1}- ? n' UP- c -«tr«et» to aypoint, outside the" "don't 'turn" ■■"areajwafed' then run back on the correct side of the roadway; that vehicles may not cross the lines of traffic in order to pick' up or put down goods on the other side, of the road, but must run on up and. then turn down with down-running traf-. .??.», 3P d that when stopped alongside the" kerbmg they must face in the direction offtetiafficon that-side of the street with the -near wheels not more" than' ™™ inches from the kerbing. ' There are two reasons; for the new roadway rules, first, that the risk of traffic-blocks m the narrow business streets will be minimised, and, secondly, that if pedestrians walk to the left and motorists and others correctly follow the rules laid down for them it will be almost impossible for walkers to step off in front of moving vehicles. Those on,the outside of the footpaths will always face traffic moving, down to meet them and those on the inner side must make their way through the down line of sidewalk traff^efore stepping out upon the road, and consequently, Snless they choose to make a blind and decidedly unmannerly rush for it, will slow roailw Bufficiently to Blance al°ng the _ Various enthusiasts are already essayT g f e,Keep to the Left footpath rule, but nnd the twin* ra ther heavy Naturally so; Wellington walks to the right, or is supposed to, just now. The change is to be made on Saturday morning, not to-day.