Friday, March 15, 1974
ANOTHER BOX JUNCTION IN CENTRAL
A box junction is to be introduced in Central District to improve
the flow of traffic at the Pedder Street-Des Voeux Road Central intersection,
particularly during peak hours.
The marking of the junction will be carried out over the weekend
in preparation for the system to become operative on Monday (March 18).
Several other box junctions are already in operation and are
easily identifiable by yellow criss-cross markings on the road surface
and appropriate warning signs.
A Transport Department spokesman explained today that once the
new box junction becomes operative it will be an offence for a motorist
to drive into the marked arca unless be can clear the entire junction.
If his exit from the junction is blocked, then the motorist
must wait even if the green traffic signal is showing.
"The object is to prevent road junctions being blocked in all
directions by vehicles which cannot get out of the intersection during
a green phase of the signals controlling traffic approaching the junction,"
the spokesran explained.
The box junction at the intersection of Pedder Street and Des
Voeux Road Central is needed because of the tendency, during peak hours,
for motorists travelling down Pedder Street to block the Des Voeux Road
carriageway while waiting to cross Connaught Road Central.
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