Traffic Control

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19803, 19 May 1934, Page 10

Traffic Control

THE FOOT PASSENGER

The following are the clauses of the Road Traffic Bill introduced in the British Parliament in the section relating to foot passengers:—

1. Crossing for foot passengers may be established on roads in accordance with the provisions of this section. 2. The Minister may make regulations with respect to the precedence of vehicles and foot passengers respectively and generally with respect to the movement of traffic (including foot passengers) at and in the vicinity of a crossing (including regulations prohibiting foot-passenger traffic on the carriageway within one hundred yards of a crossing) and with respect to the indication on the roadway or otherwise and to the recetion of traffic signs in connecteion therewith.

3. Different regulations may be made under this section in relation to different traffic conditions and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words, different regulations may be made in relation to crossings in the vicinity of and at a distance from a junction of roads and to traffic which is controlled by the police or by traffic signals or by different kinds of traffic signals, or which is not controlled.

4, When it appears to the council of a borough or of an urban district or of a county that crossings ought to be established in the borough or in the urban district or in a rural district in the country, as the case may be," the council may, after consulation with the chief officer of police, submit to the Minister a scheme specifying either the positions of tie proposed crossings or the lengths of road or the areas in the number proposed for any length of road area, and the Minister may, if he thinks fit, approve the scheme with or without modification.

5. A scheme under this section may be varied from time to time, or may be revoked, by a subsequent scheme submitted and approved aforesaid, or by an order made by the Minister after

giving the council by whom the scheme was submitted an opportunity of making representation. 6. It shall be the duty of the council by whom a scheme was submitted to execute any works required in connection with the establishment of crossings in accordance with the scheme as approved, or required in consequence of a variation or revocation of the scheme, and if the council make default in the execution of any such works the Minister may execute the works and recover summarily as a civil debt from the council the expenses incurred by him in so doing. 7. If any person contravenes any of the provisions of a regulation having effect as respects a crossing, he shall in respect of each offence be liable on conviction by a court of summary jurisdiction to a fine not exceeding such amount (being £5 or less) as may be specified by regulations made under this section as the maximum fine in relation to a breach of that regulation. 8. In this section the expression “crossing” means a crossing for foot passengers established in accordance with the provisions for the time being in force of a scheme submitted and approved untjer this section and indicated in accordance with the regulations having effect as respects that crossing. 9. This section shall not apply to the London traffic area constituted under the London Traffic Act, 1924. BIG REPAIR BILL A bill for £197 3s. was recently received by a motorist in New South Wales from a garage which he had directed to overhaul his motor-car and put it in first -class order. This is believed to be a record price in Australia for an overhaul of a car which was previously in running order. The car was several years old, but the owner felt that he would have more confidence in driving it tnan he would in driving a new model.