PARKING PROBLEM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 28, 17 February 1937, Page 3

PARKING PROBLEM

Asaoclation.)

Universal Signs Suggested at Conference

(By Teleeraph— Prea*

WELLINGTON, Last Night. ▲ number of recommendations were made at a xecent conference of repre•entatives of different trafEic authorities throughout the Dominion, automobile associations, and interested Government departments, with a view to secnring greater uniformity in traffic signs. After. dealing with the more technical aspeot of the erection of jsigns, the recommendations go on 'to deal with the paTking problem, one being to the effect that a sign in the form of an upright oblong with rounded j'cornors, twelve ' inches by eighteen in--'ches, and having the capital letter "P ' ' iseven and a-half inches high thereon, be; ithe standard parking sign throughout [New Zealand and be adopted whenever, jpresent signs are replaced. Such signs .should also bear an intimation of the' iperiod'for which parking is allowed at' jthat particular spot. Parking prohibitjCd signs should be similar but shouldSbear the letters "NP." ] An interesting recommendation is toithe effect that the department should! 'take steps to see that compulsory stop {signs be erected only -where essential/ either at railway crossings oe elsewhere, •it being eonsidered that signs had been {erected in the-past too freely at railway 'crossings and their value as a warning '•had thus been lessened. It is al.so xejcommended that the word compulsory be omitted. Other recommendations 'deal with the placing of class Y and Z signs indicat•ing the beginning or end of the legal speed limit and the erection of warning signs for road w.ork in progress ahead.' The- flfital recommendation is to* the, * Eoad Safety Council that it consider1 the question o£# steps beihg taken to. discourage the use oi' yeliow and black' on advertisements and notices other, than traffic signs - as it is eonsidered. such use would lessen the value of the traffic signs.