SAFER ROADS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3755, 2 March 1926, Page 78

SAFER ROADS.

AIDS TO MOTORISTS. (From Our Own Cop indent.) WELLINGTON, February 22. Though the Day’s Bay foreshore road will not be lit over its full length, it is stated that the Hutt Valley Power Board proposes to help the motorist safeb on his way by painting the lower portion of the power line poles so at they will show up clearly before motor-car headlights. The roadway is fairly narrow being an 18 foot of bitumen track with only a foot or two of macadam on either side, and the whitening of the poles should assist considerably in night driving. When the surfacing of that, length of the Evan’s Bay road on the city side oi the patent slip was in hand low wooden barricades were built at two or three corners where cars might skid or drive on and over to the rocks, but further round the bay, though the bends are quite as dangerous, there are no barricades. This road carries a great deal of car traffic at night, particularly on a Sunday evening, and sooner or later a lighting svstcra will no doubt have to come. Under the City and Suburban Highways Act the board of control has power to provide lighting along roads under its jurisdiction, but so far has not acted upon that powet