THEY SHOULD READ THE PAPERS MORE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18045, 4 January 1927, Page 9

THEY SHOULD READ THE PAPERS MORE.

ANGLE PARKING RULE UNNOTICED BY MOTORISTS. Mr 11. Macintosh. Chief Traffic Inspector of the Christchurch City Council, thinks that people ought to read the papers more. If they don't, he says, the}* must be prepared to take the consequences. Concerned with the new by-law introducing angle parking for cars, the Inspector went round the city this morning to sec how the innovation was taking on. The result was disappointing. Clause 58 states that in all streets of a width of 40 feet or less in which tramlines are laid, cars when parked must be placed parallel to the kerb on the left-hand side of the vehicle. In streets without tramlines cars must be parked at an angle of not more , than 45 degrees and facing towards the kerb. Not Being Observed. That briefly is the salient feature under the Pleading of Parking. So far it does not appear to have penetrated to tiie consciousness of the majority of Christchurch motorists, who continue to bring their cars to a stop with a majestic sweep/perfectly parallel with the kerbing in any street whatsoever. This state of things is apparent even to the independent observer. In the city length of Gloucester Street, for example, with a considerable number of cars parked on each side of the road, only one of them was parked at an angle to the kerb. An orphan, it protruded from the ordered rank of vehicles. There is at least one driver in Christchurch who digests his daily journal. Other streets were in the same case Very few and far between were the cars that complied with the new bylaw. Streets in which tramlines are laid were in better case, for there custom was unchanged. These were the circumstances that drew conclusive words from Mr Macintosh. “Of course, there has hardly been time enough for the by-law to be grasped thoroughly,” he said. “I was round myself this morning and saw only one or two cars properly parked. If people won't read the papers, then they will have to take the consequences.” Double Banking. Another provision of the new by-law that is likelv to cause some concern is the prohibition of double banking on bicycles. No more can school-bound boys assist one another along the toilsome way. No longer can a young man propel homeward the added weight of some fair maiden after work is over, or at the end of some dance when the small hours have been entered. These practices have been quite largely observed, but now the fiat has gone forth, and they must cease. It is safe to say that this new measure will certainly not prove popular.