LEVEL-CROSSINGS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19957, 18 June 1930, Page 13

LEVEL-CROSSINGS.

'TO THE ZDITOB OF THE. PKE3S. ~. ■ ; CsiT—May Xbe allowed to make a ijiMhMt'ion through the. medium of your i fllnaWe paper. At present there is ; Ijat controversy regarding the dangers ■tfVlevel-croasings. I suggest that the !■ Sdway be spanned with an arch beards a large electrical sign such as is f'ffiDlayed on various buildings in the Mara. l ' The sign could flash such mcs£st as "Train Coming," "Stop,? |/®anger," etc., and could be turned \tWb Y the signalman as a train ap!s iSaehed a . crossing.—Tours, etc., IB|;; ; EYE-WITNESS. Ipne 17th, IPSO. S""nfO or the press. ■ fe-J,'_read with very- great' con-. l&lTyet another crossing accident fflffifontails the loss of six lives. De- :. Smitlya criticism is of no use whatt -jfflgfc-biit constructive criticism, no | how weak, may contain the gy-an idea to people whose prot wm dealing directly with these ipi* Since the motor-car has beand is universally aßKaot only as a means of conother pursuits 9? well, flKfetq-date and completely conof -traffic An analysis of mol shows conclusively of traffic-control ia 'en- ' to meet the npid ad* fast-moving traffic, .ealls in-other countries, dell jnst how far behind the i ffilW ini this Dominion, are, and ' ffltw^.Tvho 1 feels inclined 'to -doubt tttijAih&ent, has only to stand in the ifflSiiclt-during the busy period, and nnmbor of hair-bjeadth esoccur every day. I hope I I abler pen than mine will tug'tits matter up, but I tender for ey, are .worth, the following -post widely used streets to be A Mala Highways. raffle from, any direc--9 come to a stop, the ontioned in paragraph selves that the road irocecding on to the Main Highways condeclared , the, Mam e other to fall into inverging streets, and along this latter thoe also to a definite in paragraph 2. kions to be. enforced, ,lty provided for- any ' i 1 us* systems of control ther countries where ions are in force, jand note .that.:-the City ast decided upon tryjse systems by means r results could be City by the less ex j jf having placed in ry converging road a of rubber painted in rd "Stop" in yellow, regulations adopted, quickly become edusity of stopping at all in Highways, and the d be adopted on all way crossings, here this system is ast every nationality ret; during, the time I <t once saw a breach us whether by day or b no other traffic was I often marvelled at >ntrol of the traffic urge the volume. 1 1 that in this particune occasion 'at nigntj parked than I have ither tiipe, and yet on the entertainment, the irs had moved away lutes. —Tours, etc., rriON NOT CUBE. R Or THB PRESS. f the fact that acci•d previously through ating a green light and a red light for quite reasonable, I y suggest that the lent 'adopt for level' crossing-keepers are witli. red glasses to the "traffic on - the glasses to show to This' reform would erfere with the ing system, and derstood by the 1 if it saved one h the expense. Many nowledge, have oply by a very ' narrow, istalringthe cpoasinght for an "all clear" mean "all-clear" -to ;' but it l is , inviting ids to their death. — ■ T. W. FELTON. 7th, 1930.