PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS
PERMANENT MARKING PLAN RED REFLECTORS SET IN ROAD [by telegraph—OWN* correspondent] NEW PLYMOUTH, Tuesday Patented by two members of the staff of the New Plymouth Borough Council) a permanent method of marking pedestrian crossings is being used experimentally for one crossing in the borough. If the experiment is as successful as is expected, all crossings in the borough will be laid down in the same way. The advantages of. the method are that even on wet, dark nights the crossings will be clearly visible to motorists, and the heavy periodical cost of painting crossings will be avoided. It is stated that the system is .nm ctl superior to other patents with slD^ objectives that have been seen at Plymouth. . . N> The system is the joint invention or the town clerk, Mr. F. T. Bcllrinc p r, and the foreman, Mr. W. G. Bethel. The patent covers oval blocks or special white concrete mixed wit marble chips, red reflectors being msec.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23154, 28 September 1938, Page 14
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