A NEW STOP SIGNAL

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1930, Page 26

A NEW STOP SIGNAL

A liew.kncl of signal which enables "a pedestrian to stop vehicular traffic while ho crosses the road !.as been, installed on a busy street in Paris.

The device (according to the correspondent iv that city of tho "Christian Science Monitor") consists of a red light, such as is ordinarily used for traffic control, suspended from a standard at the edge of tho sidewalk. When a pedestrian wishes to cross the street he loesses this button. The red light flashes on, thus bringing all road traffic to a halt.' The light stays on for 15 seconds, which gives the pedestrian time to get to tho other side. The light is then extinguished automatically, and the traffic resumes its course.

In order that pedestrians may not switch on the light at too intervals, a mechanical device prevents its being turned on again until 45 so«----onds have elapsed after its last illumination. Use of those signals will, it is believed, make it unnecessary to employ traffic officers at many points -whore tliov arc now stationed.