CAR-PARKING REGULATIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23005, 7 October 1936, Page 14

CAR-PARKING REGULATIONS

to ril£ EDITOR Sir, —Your correspondent "Not a Road Hog" terms my letter "stupid," and, with due humility, I turn the other cheek, and credit him with having given me some really illuminating information. He infers that one who holds a licence should know that parking over a fireplug is prohibited. I fail to see the connection between a driving licence and a fire plug. Then he .states that "common sense would indicate the danger of covering up so important an article as a plug." This is admitted, but " Not a Road Hog " must see the plug before he decides not to park over it. lam quite honest in admitting that, of my many acquaintances who have committed this offence, not one has seen the plug before parking. This is not due to lack of observation. If "Not a Road Hog" examines the fireplug to which I refer, situated between Stafford and Carroll streets, he will see that it is inside the long white parking line, and not outside, as some of those in George street are. Therefore, it is more difficult to see. Moreover, the line running parallel to the kerbing is unbroken, thereby giving no indication that parking is prohibited. Had the white line been broken at a reasonable distance on each side of the plug, one would instinctively know that one must not park In the clear space. I do not "run my car across the pavement and leave it there" because even a child knows that pavements were made for pedestrians and not for vehicular traffic. That remark of "Not a Road Hog" is indeed stupid. I think the motoring public will agree with me when I say that It would be a very reasonable request that the Automobile Association publish any new regulations or by-laws which may come into force from time to time. lam a member of that worthy body, and have no desire to cast any reflections on it or to question the intelligence of its members. May I add that I have a suspicion that " Not a Road Hog " is also not a motorist, otherwise I feel sure he would not have written his letter.—l am, etc., A Fly. Dunedin, October 6. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—l read with interest the letters of "A Fly," "Another Fly," and "Not a Road Hog," in the question of parking over a fire plug. If the plug happens to be the one over which I parked in Princes street I can well uphold the views expressed by "A Fly." For country motorists who are in town only rarely this is undoubtedly a trap, as one is over the plug before one realises it. I certainly agree that a sign "No Parking" would solve a difficulty in this respect.—l am, etc., Motorist. Dunedin, October 6.