CAR PARKING

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 11

CAR PARKING

STANDARD SIGNS WANTED ,

Parking regulations, and the adequate marking of fire plugs, were subjects considered by the executive of the North Island Motor Union to-day. Fire plugs, said Mr. E. A. Batt (Wellington) were not marked properly. Certain signs were made, perhaps, oil a wall, 10ft high, and the signs were not visible from the modern limousine. He thought that thr onus should be on the local authorities'to mark fire plugs on the ground and on the edge of the side-walk in a way which would make the markings visible from the inside of cars. The motorists, he contended, were not receiving a fair chance o£ complying with the law. It was very easy to park a car over or adjacent to a fire plug without being aware of it. ■Mr. H. E. Edmunds (Manawatu) said that in Palmerston North four colours were used in marking out parking places, the colours denoting different time limits for parking. Kre plugs were painted conspicuously, a white square being made with the words "Fire plug" painted in red. That was brought about as the result of a fire at a petrol station, when the brigade found that cars were parked over fire plugs. Mr. Batt suggested that markings for fire plugs and for parking places should be standardised. 'A stranger in Wellington might not know what "BVP." meant. ' . ■■ * Tho Chairman: "Free petrol, perhaps." ' ' . The association decided to recommend to the Minister of Transport that standardised markings should be adopted in New Zealand.