Stop Signs

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31003, 8 March 1966, Page 16

Stop Signs

Sir,—From time to time one or other of your readers requests the erection of a “stop" sign. Now each of these signs is an exception to “give way to the right” and unless a definite pattern is established, it may be a menace. In my opinion one exists at the north end of Rutland street. There is an isolated sign at McFadden's road, motorists cross the next! intersection May’s road—; at 30 m.p.h.. making no at-1 tempt to give way to the;

right. Regular travellers know this trap and accident-fre-quency figures do not reveal the actual circumstances. — Yours, etc., “MOTORIST.” February 25, 1966. [The traffic superintendent of the Christchurch City Council (Mr J. F. Thomas) said:— “In general, ‘stop’ or ‘give way’ signs are erected to a pattern, and only quite recently a series of signs were authorised to protect our primary routes. Before placing signs at isolated intersections, various factors, such as accident history, visibility, traffic flows, and application of the right-hand rule, etc., are carefully studied, and when such signs are erected, every effort is made to make the intention adequately clear to approaching motorists.”]