PLANS TO REDUCE DANGERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 11

PLANS TO REDUCE DANGERS.

<b«S »• Isfocuno* The Minister for Hail#ays „, dressed a cqnfertnceto wfilidw ;*i®| * and means of reducing traffic -rMm-. depts, and on bdhalf ofthe inent expressed condolence with - '' relative# of the victims in the ' church smash. The Minister said he would not !»»•- it thought that the level the only source, or even tike ' source, of danger. 'V He. believed thst j.| on the main roads-was cause of accidents. • •- , Level crossings Were by 'the chief danger, • or - Every one of-the. dangers fully and ssriot?aly weighed in the baltoee in-^dd^lipl(r f < ; to minimise accidents. *. J 3 Alterexpressing *egret »t loas &• si* lives in the level crossing- duastfer near Christchurch, the Minister : A>r Pnblic Works (the Hon. W. B. Taver- ; ner) to-day outlined the' steps' being ■ taken by Government Department® to improve the so an'to bring about a reduction in the number of accidents. The subject of a<scide*tft would be discussed at theconferenee to be held in Wellington* to-day, said Mr Taverner. Probably, fro;m the conference some scheme would be crystallised. The position would be farther assisted when the Transport Act* giving further control, W& approved. Naturally the incidence of accidents was causing, everybody, a great deal of anxiety and thought. Asked if the Public Works Department and the railways were combining, , to remedy the danger at level erortings, Mr Taverner said it had to be' bered that there were over 8000 cart** ings, and the Railway Department had ' been working on a prognuqme of eliniinating ths worst. However « grest maay of the accidents occurrfd at remote crossings, where there was little k trsA& "At present the Bailway D3tartyl4« is co-operating to the fullest* extentof its financial ability to assist the local bodies and the. Highways Board, in the matter of improving this stated the Minister.' "At all the' Bto» important crossings compulsory stop- ' signs have been erected, and" the onus "• therefore is on the road use*a to:exer- 4 eise caution." . *