SAFER CYCLING
CAMPAIGN ORGANISED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. April 15. A special enforcement campaign against cyclists riding at night -without lights' or proper rear reflectors will he commenced on Monday week, according to a Ministerial announcement. A circular has been sent to all enforcement authorities, and it is hoped to make the drive the most efiicient ever organised in the Dominion. It is instituted purely in the interests of the cyclists themselves, and is based upon the experience during the late autumn of last year. It is pointed out that in the .summer the densest traffic is in the daylight hours. but with the shortening of tho days the after-daylight, risk increases, and during the early winter frosts and rain decrease stopping distances and reduce visibility, allowance for which is not made by any road-user. The cvele represents (lie slowest type of vehicle, and consequently is being constantly overtaken, hence the stress laid upon the need for an effective rear light or mirror.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 3
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163SAFER CYCLING Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 116, 17 April 1939, Page 3
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