LEVEL CROSSING DANGERS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160711, 26 July 1920, Page 2

LEVEL CROSSING DANGERS.

To the Editor. Sir,—l read with much interest the comment in your issue of Thursday last, upon the urgent necessity of an automatic alarm at the Guyton Street level crossing. As one who has more than once narrowly escaped death there whilst cycling to and from work, I quite endorse your remarks, but surely you don’t expect to get anything so easily from our parental Government? You no doubt will say that Palmerston has such an alarm in the Square, so also has an equally dangerous crossing at Newmarket; true, but both were purchased with human lives. If we approach the Minister of Railways we shall be told that such an expenditure (£ls) is out of the question as the station site is being altered—someday. He won’t mention tered—someday. He won’t mention the fact that the Jockey Club can’t be ousted for three years, and that it would take another three to complete the new station, but he would tell us that the plans were already out. So we must go on running the gauntlet daily, unless some relative of a Cabinet Minister gets chewed up, then the matter will be brought under the notice of the Minister of Labour by the Inspector of Awards, who in turn wall be urged on by the secretary of the Wheel Greasers’ Union, because scraping human remains off the axle boxes is not provided for in that awaru. Thanking you for your effort to remove a great public danger.—l am, etc. THE MAN UNDER THE WHEEL.