LIGHTS AND LICENCES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 26, 30 July 1937, Page 8

LIGHTS AND LICENCES

(To the Editor.) Sir,—At the Queen's Wharf entrance it is quite usual to see traffic cross against "yellow" showing at the same time as green. Traffic regulation 4 reads: "While red, yellow, or amber light shows: Traffic "facing the light shall stop, etc." To make the position clear this part of the regulation should be recast as follows: "While red, or yellow combined with either green or red shows, etc.," and the word "only" should be inserted after "green light" in the first part of the regulation. The word "amber" is unnecessary and should be deleted. Quito a lot appears in your paper anent the alleged penally of cancelling driving licences, but is it really a penalty? Except in the, case of a wellknown person anyone without a licence may drive with impunity until involved in an accident. I do not know the procedure in this city, but in another part of the Dominion a check, of drivers' licences is made on the first fine Sunday in June with the result that those without licences do not drive on a Sunday until after the only check of the year. Another check should undoubtedly be made, especially when one reads of the number of unlicensed drivers convicted in our

Courts. A week day should be set aside to deal with the drivers of commercial vehicles.—l am, etc., LICENSED DRIVER.