TRAFFIC CONTROL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 101, 29 March 1939, Page 10

TRAFFIC CONTROL.

IMPORTANT PROPOSALS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, March 29. Several important recommendations from the Commissioner of Transport (Afr G. L. Laurenson) will he discussed at the meeting of the Road Safety Council to-morrow under the main headings of compulsory dipping of headlights, safety glass‘for all cars, rear lights for bicycles, and blue lights for large lorries and trailers, new provisions as to pedestrian crossings and safety zones, new signs at intersections, and the general enforcement of the traffic regulations. The council, at its last meeting, approved the report of the vehicle lighting sub-conimittee making certain recommendations concerning headlight adjustments a.nd the dipping of lights. Those proposals were referred to motor organisations and they concur with them : the new requirements will he incorporated in the proposed amendments to the Traffic Regulations, which are to be reviewed this vear.