WANTS TOO MUCH ROAD

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 149, 27 June 1930, Page 11

WANTS TOO MUCH ROAD

BUS DRIVERS ANNOYED

FORCED TO' WRONG SIDE

For some time past the driver of a certain light lorry, which is regularly on the Hutt road, has been moving drivers of other vehicles, particularly railway bus drivers, to much bad language, and what is worse, to the wrong sido of the road. Apparently this man has fixed for himself an absolute limit of not an inch more than 15 miles an hour, which would be right enough if he ilrovo even reasonably close to the edge of tho bitumen track. Instead he maintains his steady 15 miles from four to five feet out on the track, and anything that passes him has no option but to cross well over to the wrong side of the bitumen.

Whether his driving practice—his determination to stick well in on the bitumen, not to keep his speed down —is sufficiently obvious as to bring him within reach of the regulations is for the officials to decide, but that tho practice creates danger, particularly on busy afternoons, is beyond question. Yesterday afternoon this driver1 had the satisfaction —if it was any satisfaction to him—of holding up for tho best part of a milo between Ngahauranga and Petone two railways buses, an Eastbourne bus, and a. couple of cars. Regulation 11, clause 3, says: "Every driver of a motor vehicle shall, when overtaking another vehicle, signal by use .of the warning instrument his desire to pass the vehicle being overtaken, and thereupon it shall be the duty of tho driver of the latter vehicle to move to his left, if possible with safety, so as to allow the overtaking vehicle a reasonable space in which to pass."

This seems to fit the case.

. There has been some comment and criticism lately over glaring headlights upon railway buses, and it has been alleged that drivers of these buses have been in the habit of driving with two lights and suddenly flashing on another pair, blinding approaching drivers with sidelights and headlights as well. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the argument on that point, a "Post" reporter was told to-day, an instruction has new been given the drivers that headlights and sidelights are not in future to be used together.