TRAFFIC CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 17

TRAFFIC CONTROL

THE FOOT PASSENGER

BRITAIN'S PROPOSALS

The following are tho clauses of tho Koad Traffic Bill introduced: in tho British Parliament in tho section relating to foot passengers:—

1. Crossings for foot passengers may be established on roads in accordance with tho provisions of this section. 2. The Minister may mako regulations with respect to tho precedence of vehicles and foot passengers respectively and generally with respect to the movement of traffic (including foot passengers) .at and in tho vicinity of a crossing (including regulations prohibiting foot-passenger traffic on tho carriageway within ono hundred yards of a. crossing) and with rospect to the } indication of the limits of a crossing by marks on tho roadway or otherwise and to tho erection of traffic signs in connection therewith.

3. Different regulations may bo made nnder this section in relation to different traffic conditions and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of tho foregoing words, different regulations may bo made in relation to crossings in the vicinity of and at a distance from a junction of roads and to traffic which is controlled by tho police or by traffic signals or by different kinds of traffic signals, or which is not controlled.

4. When it appears to tho council of a borough or of an urban district or of a county that crossings ought to be established in the borough or in the urban district or in a rural district in tho county, as the case may be, the council may, after consultation with the chief officer of police, submit to tho Minister a scheme specifying either the positions of tho proposed crossings or the lengths of road or the areas in which they are to be established, and the number proposed for any length of road or area, a.nd the Minister may, if he thinks fit,' approve the scheme with or without .modification.

5. A scheme under this section may be varied from- time to time, or may be reyok6d, by a subsequent schemo submitted and approved as aforesaid, or by an order made *by the Minister after giving the- council by whom the scheme was submitted an opportunity of making representations.

C. It shall bo the duty of the council by whom a schemo was submitted to execute any works required in connection with the establishment of crossings in accordance with the scheme as approved, or required in consequence of a variation or revocation of the schemo, and if tho council make default in the execution of any such works tho

Minister may execute the works and recover summarily as a civil debt from tho council the expenses incurred by him in so doing.

7. If any person contravenes any of tho provisions of a regulation having effect as respects a crossing, he shall in respect of each offence be liable on conviction by a court of summary jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding such amount (being £5 or less) as may be specified by regulations made under this section as the maximum fino in relation to a breach of that regulation. 8. In this section the expression "crossing" means a crossing for foot passengers established in accordance I with the provisions for the time being in force of a scheme submitted and approved under this section and indicated in accordance with the regulations having effect as respects that crossing. 9. This section shall not apply to tire London traffic area constituted under tho London Traffic Act, 1924.