SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 May 1925, Page 1

SYDNEY’S TRAFFIC.

SYDNEY. May 1. The 1 1 ■:tf!'n• authorities, in nil oliort to discipline '•jay-walkers.'* ns they arc termed, by teaching them to cross crowded city streets at right angles, oii<l at appointed places—instead of wandering uiinlos.—lv and without any semblance of order across streets alive with motor and other traliie have, as an experiment painted white lines from footpath to footpath at several of the busiest crossings. A few days ago the system was extended by introducing the white, parrallel lines at the intersection of Pitt and Park streets, one of the points of crowded Sydney at which trains, motor ears, lorries and other vehicles, and shoppers and other pedestrians converge in a veritable maelstrom—in a whirlpool of traffic which is negotiated carelessly at the ri>k of life and limb. When the white lines were introduced at this section many pedestrians looked at them

curiously—and continued their old careless jav-walk across to the other side of the street. The police, however, are making the public understand that to walk within the lines i.s compulsory, and that just as they have been disciplined on the footpaths so they must keep to an allotted course across the streets.