ROAD CHIVALRY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 102, 2 May 1930, Page 8

ROAD CHIVALRY

PLEDGE FOR MOTORISTS

HELPING ONE ANOTHER

(From "The Post's" Representative.) : SYDNEY, 24th April. The, day seems to be approaching when Sydney motorists who make, a mess of one another's car or fail to give the other-fellow,the right of way j will, with profuse and profound obeisance, be greeting one another with: "Don't apologise, my dear man; tho fault was entirely mine. What can I do?" ' Deploring, in common with the Victorian traffic authorities, the lack of road courtesy, .and the old spirit of road fellowship, the National Roads-1 and Motorists' Association-of New South Wales is' attempting an experiment among motorists who are eager to do to the other follow on tho road what he would like the other fellow to do to him in a similar set of circumstances. It is issuing what is termed a "Golden Emblem" pledgo, or badge, for display on windscreens and rear windows. Motorists who sign this pledge—signatures attest the fealty of .more than 800 to tho good cause already—undertako to assist, as;far as reasonably lies within their power, every other member of tho association displaying tho emblem, when in trouble on the road. They also plpdgo themselves in-writing to practise and oncourago road courtesy, to apply all tho safety first principles, and to respect tho rights of others on tho road, whether motorists or pedestrians." It will bo quite a good thing if it means the death knell of tho road hog —of the motorist who believes tho road and the rules of the road were made only for him; the chap who ignores the other man's rights at street intersections; the driver who insists on cutting-in and cutting-out •in heavy lines of traffic; tho man who overtakes one on narrow bridges; the man who creeps up from behind, loudly blastshis horn, gets tlio right- of way, and then merely loafs in front of ono. And so on. Perhaps the age of road chivalry only wants awakening.