PEDESTRIANS' RIGHTS
(To the Editor.)
Sir,—What is the purpose of the white parallel lines drawn on the roadways at the street intersections? If these are to ensure a measure of safety for the pedestrian in crossing, how is it that one frequently sees cars at a standstill right across the spate between these lines. ■ Surely some of the motorists only require having their attention drawn to this to observe the regulation. I assume that this small portion of the, roadway is for the pedestrian or are the majority of motorists not satisfied with ninety-nine hundredths of the roadspace, and determined to claim the other one hundredth? If it is an offence against the bylaws to allow a car to be stationary on the space between these lines, pedestrians should be given the right to order the. person in" charge of a car so placed to remove the car at once, or to take the number of the car and Jodge a complaint. After one or two complaints against the' same car or driver action could be taken by the authorities.—l am, etc.
A. WALKER.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1937, Page 10
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