CITY PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 5

CITY PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

Two years ago an experimental pedestrian crossing was laid down across the Willeston end of Willis Street by tho City Engineer's Department in an endeavour to get away from the continual repainting of pavement lines. At that time the regulations were so worded that this crossing—in coloured concrete with a white band on either side—was not strictly legal and was not therefore an "authorised" crossing where pedestrians had definite rights, but the regulations have since been amended. Though the Willeston Street crossing' I has not had to stand up to much traffic, the experiment, Said the City Engineer, Mr. K. E. Luke, yesterday- indicated that concrete crossings should stand up well and would be a cheaper proposition than continued repainting. More of them were therefore to be put down, across the Willis Street end of Mercer Street and the two-way crossings over Willis Street, with possibly others in the city area later on. Certainly, said Mr. Luke, they could not go on with painted crossings for, at this time of the year particularly, the cost of upkeep was far too heavy and only for the first week or so after being repainted were they satisfactory.

Dominic Augustine Clausen, a labourer, aged 45, appeared before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and pleaded guilty to two charges of the theft of boots. He was convicted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative. Patrick Murphy, a labourer, aged 57, who also pleaded guilty to the theft of a pair of boots, was convicted and sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labour.