ROAD PERILS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 1

ROAD PERILS

BUS REGULATIONS CORONER’S MOVE TO HELP NORTH SHORE BOS SYSTEM Mr, F. K. Hunt, S.M., city coroner, who had to conduct an inquiry into a bus accident that ended fatally at Devonport recently, has written to the Devonport Borough Council making suggestions for controlling the bus traffic, as he fears that, unless such measures are taken, other accidents may occur in the future. Mr. Hunt, after drawing: attention to the fact that buses would not get of! the 18ft. wide concrete strip when picking up or setting down passengers, urged a regulation compelling a bus, passing a stationary vehicle, to leave at least five or six feet clearance. Cr. Ellisdon urged adopting the city practice of making all follDwing traffic stop if a bus pulled up to pick drop passengers. Cr. Walsh: That might work on the Cheltenham route but it would create chaos on the main road: the buses should pull into the kerb side; in Lake Road, where the side haunches have not been finished, bus stops should be fixed and the road finished out at these points. Mr. Aldridge: I think the town clerk and borough solicitor should confer and draft a by-law. Cr. W. S. Campbell said that the idea of compelling all traffic to stop when the leading vehicle stopped would only create greater difficulties. In the city the trams altered conditions as they were tied to the middle of the street. A sub-committee comprising tho Mayor and Crs. Ellisdon, Browne and Campbell will examine the position in conference with the bus owners. Mr. Hunt is to be thanked for his letter and advised of what the borough is