LEVEL CROSSINGS
WARNING THE PUBL1C. It is the duty of every motorist, when approaching a level crossing, to take the utmost care and precaution. Although the Railway Department has erected "Compulsory Stop" signals at numerous level crossings throughout the country, the wholesale erection of such signs is not always the best means of educating and impressing upon the motoring public the approaching danger. Railway crossings are, of course, at any time a potential danger and the department has met its legal liability in erecting "Compulsory Stop" signs throughout the country; but is is a question for consideration whether some different method of signposting crossings should be used, as well as a more comprehensive system of classification, according to the degree of danger. What the automohile clubs have found in sign-posting through the country is that each case requires consideration on its merits, and they have found that the wholesale erection of similar types of signs has not given satisfactory results. Yariation of signs is an art of signposting, and while there is a great onus on the motoring puhlic, the authorities, at the same time, should study the psychological effect upon the minds of the motoring p'ublic.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 September 1932, Page 2
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197LEVEL CROSSINGS Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 September 1932, Page 2
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