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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPU, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1931.

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main with my argument, lays stress on the necessity for placing the Bghthouses in the middle of the road and not at the side. That is evidently recognised by most of those enlightened local authorities who have so vastly improved driv- ing conditions in their districts by erecting them, and one can safely look forward to the plan being universally adopted. The light- THE LIGHTHOUSES. house must be plainly visible to all

Improving Traffic Control.

drivers approaching from any of the four directions at cross-ronds. (By John Polenu)

There may still exist a few danger | epots of this kid where one rond An article written some weeks curves uo aentely into the June- ngo on the standarisation of rondtion that the latter is only seen at signs and the need for the general the last moment, but with the autoption of the lighthouse type of increasing practice of cutting down waring-signal has brought me the corner-hedges and generally number of comments from Obaer-improving the "visibility" the ques- ver readers who, like myself, re-tion would soan be answered. Kari the existing systems

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heterogeneous signs, pictorial and.

literal, as hopelessly inadequate for It is a vast relief to meet the the ever-increasing stream! of

swift trafie. Living in the middle first of these. admirable warning beacons, after a couple of hundred of this muddle, have always pbted upon the lighthouse as the miles driving at the mercy of the of the usual signals, from the "steep hill" most promising uolution problem of traille control, but after warning, erected, presumably, for the special benefit of brakeless only a few weeks in France, where bicyclists and nobody else, to the for the most part, warning signalsey

like henting one's mother tongue

are of a standardleed pattern and red triangle which, after twenty no driver with the rudiments of years existence or more, may still mean you are in an undetalled intelligence can fail to see instantly mea

danger zone-or nothing. It is what is required of him at moment, the return to our congest- ed roads with the multiplicity of after trying to understand half-a- dozen foreign ones. By night or signs has been something of h

day that beacon has one efuar mes- shack. A month's driving efficiently directed reads seems lage for you and everyone, of any nationality, who has eyes in his have made one forget under what head. It simply means "Looks absurd rules aur safety on the!

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King's highway is supposed to be out!"

JA POCORSITY. Variorated High-

insured,

THE LAST PEDESTRIAN.

have taken the opportunity of This is practically all that watching the effect of these bases on heavy traffic, and i have not yet boards amounting hills or cross-

seemed to the Tull

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few

ROAD HANDICAPPED.

ANOTHER SAFETY PLAN.

China has 410,000,000 people living in an, aren somewhat larger roads, or schools, or blind turnings, seen a case where they stream

than the United States, and yot is perhaps a little unfair to become not only superfluous init "bottle-nock"

venicles. I have heard of one has only 35,000 miles of road, of we had a insist upon the far greater peace confusing.

colliding with which but 2,000 la macadam. of mind in which one drives in absolutely standardised warning-case of a car

lighthouse, but I never heard the There are only 20,000 motor The straight signals, all of a uniform height, details of the accident nor whether vehicles in the whole country. France. everywhere, on the level. and size, enlouring and lettering, things

the blame for it could be justly whenever a considerable rise or might not be so bad but as underlaid to the ear or the beacon. In

it in the present lack of system you ens they are carried over easy curves, always in exactly the find half a dozen editions of the any case, the height and general dimensions do not appear to call far as main roada fame warning erected in as many for wide inser, and I imagine that same way, 80 are concerned. There are no start. counties, plus posts contributed

serious objection to

As a means of ridding streets ling surprises, no Unannounceű (in many cases very wisely) by the this is a

the differty and highways of unsafe automo- organisations, plastheir general use

hites, the American Motorists A bind places, no difficulties of which motoring

Folation is urging the adoption the driver is it fully warned in amateur efforts like the fantastic could be easily surmeinted,,

compulsory automobile inspec notule time. Our roads are seldom "Carriage Drive" and "Concealed of the

would straight, and they often

This inspection traverse Entrance," the last state

We are promised standardisation, lion. very ily country in which all newcomer's mind after traversing

than the of all warning signals. Exactly assign unfit cars to junk heaps. sorts disagreeable surprises a few counties is worse

when this extremely desirable may await the unwary

the first.

rebange will be made we are not visiting foreigner in the shape af

tald. but we may reasonably hope of beacons of the type already concealed cross-rends, steep drops.

way in existence in the Home Counties, Apart from that referring to the judging from the prompt with or without blind bend in

of the which some of the provisions of Hampshire, Norfolk, and parts of them, and the like. The problem possible wrong placing of sterring our traffic safely lighthouse. I have heard anty one the new Traffle Act have been pul Scotland the safety of the travel- It into operation, that it will be soon. ling public, awheel and afoot, will of the criticism of these warnings.

was pointed out that in some cases It is devoutly to be hoped, that a be sensibly increased. Our trafic the, equal of the lases on which they stand may felean sweep will be made of all the control will then be be too big, so cutting lato the fold and confusing signs, and that any in the world, instead of one of the available driving width of the roan, by the erection all over the canntyy the worst.

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