ROAD REGULATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 10 June 1939, Page 10

ROAD REGULATIONS

DRIVERS AND PEDESTRIANS

CHANGES PREDICTED Important changes in the traffic regulations and the law controlling the conduct of drivers and pedestrians on the roads, in addition to the compulsory dipping of headlights arc predicted in • the current issue of the "New Zealand • Motor World.” The journal understands I that the following changes are to be provided for:— The issuing of drivers’ licenses by the , Post Office. The registration of bicycles. The formation of metropolitan areas , for traffic control. Government control in all areas other than boroughs over 6000 population. Powers of arrest by traffic officers of drunken drivers. Notification by motorists of change of address of garage Compulsory dipping of headlights. The carrying of marker lights by all vehicles over seven feet in width. The carrying of a blue light on all drawing trailers. Specifications for marking and indicating pedestrian crossing-places will include the present form and definition with the addition that they must be clearly distinguishable from 100 feet ! away by night and day. There must be poles at each end of ' the crossings, marked black and white I in 12-inch bands, the marking to extend i six feet high. These six-feet-high markings may b2 surmounted by a light, this detail being left to the local authority. Where a thoroughfare is wide enough to demand it, safety refuges will be provided in the middle of the marked ' crossing place.