PLACING ROAD SIGNS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1938, Page 10

PLACING ROAD SIGNS

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—At a recent meeting of thecentral committee of. the Suburban Ratepayers' and Electors' Association it was stated that one should be able to know where to look for a sign, and half the time one, spends searching for a signboard. A good example of where not to place a signboard is to be seen at the' junction of Sutherland Eoad and Hornsey Eoad. The signboard is placed about a. chain up Hornsey Eoad amongst the trees of a live fence on. top of a bank some twenty feet above the road. Now who can find this sign in the day time and it is even worse on a dark, wet night. There is no lamp light to show the notice and no headlights of a motor-car or taxi, under the new regulations, can throw a light up-this height to search for the road sign. Motorists looking for Hornsey. Road pass the junction before they realise their error and then have to attempt to reverse on the narrow and dangerous Sutherland Road with not a straight section in it with the result they back off the road, into'the-gullies below. One' .presumes that the engineers have been up in this neighbourhood looking the Exhibition site over and also they have realised that many visitors will drive over this Sutherland Road to get a bird's eye view of the Exhibition, especially at night time. The road should be properly sign-posted, illuminated, and reconstructed for the Exhibition traffic before an- accident occurs. The City Council should consider the need of raising a loan to complete the necessary access roads in the various suburbs.—l am, etc., '• • .'•

L. G. AUSTIN,