PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHTS—AND LEFTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 868, 11 January 1930, Page 8

PEDESTRIANS’ RIGHTS—AND LEFTS

Sir, — Your correspondent “Autosense” writes as an indignant motorist to defend his kind against the charges of trampling (or driving) on (or over) the rights of the pedestrian. It is all very well to claim that all motorists are sprouting haloes and that the last thing they would do would be to pass a stationary tram. Many of them—l will go further and say most of them —scrupulously observe the rule that motor-cars must not pass a stationary tramcar. But the others! Well, recently I was boarding a tram near Newmarket. Springing gazelle-like between two rushing cars, I made a wild leap for the tram and was partlv assisted in catching it by the wind created by a third car which all but

removed the back crease from my trousers. A. little indignant that a. middle-aged man should be called upon to perform such undign’ified, if necessary. antics, I called the conductor, who was enjoying the spectacle, from the rear platform. “Why didn't you take that last man's number?" I asked. “What’s the use?” was the laconic reply. And with that reply I had to be content. But it is a scandal that conductors do not take the number of every motorist who thus flouts the by—law. Is it necessary for a man to be killed to ensure that he is regarded as a. human being worthy of being saved? COUNTY CORK.