UNIFORMITY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 746, 20 August 1929, Page 6

UNIFORMITY

A.A.A. Signs are Well Placed and Respected

The excellent sign-posting of the A.A.A. is removing a danger -which existed some years ago when signposting was everybody’s business and nobody’s responsibility. The highways were posted haphazard with all types of signs and they were allowed to fade and fall into disrepair. Once ■ the signs were up local bodies forgot them and the weather took toll. Motorists were liable under these conditions to pay more attention to the signposts than to the road and often the wheel would be forgotten in straining to read some indistinct notice. Drivers have actually run into ditches before they have succeeded in making sense of the lettering. One could have picked out scores of signs which were certainly never erected by anybody with a motorist’s outlook. Positions were picked at random and the posts were apparently meant to be read from a standstill, if not with the assistance of a step-ladder. The A.A.A. has standardised posting as far as the Auckland Province is concerned. Signs are placed as low as possible in recognition of the vision from closed cars with visors. Wording is kept at a minimum and the A.A.A. signposting truck is continually checking up on early signs to ensure that they do not become illegible.