Pedestrian Crossings
Sir, —I can assure “L.S.T.” that there is no such thing as a safe pedestrian crossing in Christchurch. I am always very careful, but when I get a “Cross Now” signal I expect to do just that. Recently I left a Cashmere bus at Victoria square, wishing to cross to Armagh street east. I walked to a traffic island and on receiving “Cross Now” walked smartly on to the road. When six or seven feU on my way my attention was attracted by a noise at my right band, and coming straight at me was a bus. I jumped back, and as it passed me I could have touched it. The driver was not even looking up Colombo street, just gazing over to Armstrongs, and had he knocked me down would have known nothing of it until he felt a bump. The lights should have held him at the south-west corner
and it would be interesting to know how he crossed the intersection.—Yours, etc., NO SAFETY. June 6, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 10
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