RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIII, Issue 19, 20 May 1912, Page 5

RAILWAY CROSSINGS.

REDDEST FOR A SUBWAY AT ' FENTON STREET.

NO SPECIAL DANGER."

While he was in the district recently a deputation from the Borough Council waited on the Minister for Public Work:; and requested that a subway be made at the Fenton Street railway crossing for the protection of children on their way to school. The Mayor has received the following reply' from the Minister for Railways (the Hon. A. M. Myers):— With regard co the representations which were made by the deputation which waited upon the Minister for Public Works recently, urging that a subway should be provided at Fenton Street', Stratford, for the use of schooj children crossing the line, I have the honour to inform you that there is no special element of danger at the crossing in question, and the experience of the Department over a long series of years has shown that children generally enjoy an almost absolute immunity from' accident at level crossings, probably on account of the fact that they are much more alive to the operations going on about them than older people. The Department's experience also shows that in almost every instance where an accident has occurred at a level crossing it has been due to the carelessness of the parties concerned, and that drivers of vehicles and others will persist in passing over the line directly in front of approaching trains in spite of the warnings of crossing keepers or the warning bells where such are established._ .Instructions have recently been given for warning bells to be provided at both Fenton and Regan Street crossings, and this, in my opinion, should suffice for the actual requirements of the traf-