IHF LURE OF THE ROAD

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3846, 16 December 1936, Page 26 (Supplement)

IHF LURE OF THE ROAD

A MOTORISTS ERA OF HAPPINESS. 1 bis summer promises a record number of motor vehicles on the roads. Many new drivers will pilot new vehicles along the highways. There is a new road code—a new gospel of the roads. The Minister of Transport has unified the traffic rules. Generally, the speed limit definitions may be said to standardise into a maximum of 30 miles per hour in the built-up areas of the towns. This is a most welcome change from the old order which gave such a wide variety of speed limits and localised restrictions. It should be noted, however, that th 30 m.p.h. stipulation is a maximum; the motorist is at all titnes required to avoid danger of recklessness. To motorists generally, however, could be said the three main rules of the road are: 1. Keep to The Left. 2. Avoid Cutting In. 3. Don’t Pass on a Blind Corner. The greatest “sin” of the motorist is expressed in a word—Selfishness. It gives rise to most troubles on the road. The habit of going places in a hurry is fraught with many dangers —and the greatest of them all is selfishness. Drivers have only to recognise a reasonable consideration for others to avoid many risks of mishap, keeping the roads open for themselves and for others, and really making metering the pleasure it should be for everybody. “Don’t Be Selfish” is really what is implied when more expressive language is used: “Don’t Be a Road Hog.”