SYDNEY’S CROWDED TRAFFIC.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19475, 9 May 1925, Page 15

SYDNEY’S CROWDED TRAFFIC.

CHALK LINE FOR PEDESTRIANS.

DISCIPLINING- THE “JAY WALKERS.**

(Fbom Due Own CobbshpondbiitJ

SYDNEY, May L The traffic authorities, in an effort to discipline “jay-walkers,” as they am ■; termed, by teaching them to cross crowded city streets at right angles, and at, ap- ■) pointed places—instead of wandering aim- : Lessly and without ■ any semblance of order across streets alive with motor and other traffic—have, qs 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 parallel lines at the intersection of. Pitt\ and Park streets, on® of the points of crowded Sydney at which trams, motor cars, lorries, and other vehicles, and shoppers and other pedeotrians converge in a veritable maelstrom—r in a whirlpool of traffic which: is negotiated carelessly at the risk of life and limb. When, the white lines were introduced at tma section many pedestrians looked at them curiously—and continued their old careless jay-walk across to the other side of the street. The police, however, are making the public understand that, to walk within the lines, is compulsory, and that just as they have been disciplined on the footpaths so they must keep to an allotted course across the streets.