THE “DANGER” LINE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 895, 12 February 1930, Page 1

THE “DANGER” LINE

PEDESTRIANS CRASH ON QUEEN STREET GREASY GUIDE-MARKS The tliin. -white lines which act as guides for pedestrians on the footpaths of Queen Street have suddenly become dangerous. Good citizens, hurrying about their business, have been measuring their length on the pavement, and some of them have nasty bruises and damaged clothes as a result of slipping on the white lines. It has been an extremely dangerous and undignified proceeding. The paint, or whatever material has been used to mark the footpaths, seems to have the surface of ice. One man who suffered yesterday was Mr. R. Shepard, of J. C. Williamson Films. ' He was walking down Queen Street, near Vulcan Lane, when he heard a crash on the pavement behind him. He turned round quickly to see what had happened, slipped on the greasy white line, and crashed on his back. Mr. Shepard’s trousers were cut, and his leg and elbow injured. A pipe in the rear pocket of his trousers cut into his hip. A woman had slipped on the greasy line near Mr. Shepard, and she received nasty bruises and a blow on the head. Later in the afternoon two other people fell in Queen Street when they were hurrying along the footpath, and similar cases of undignified falls were reported on Monday. Lines along the footpaths were painted on Sunday night. They are put there periodically in an effort to make pedestrians keep to their proper side of the pavement, and thus avoid congestion. However, this time the material used seems to have become unusually greasy, with the result that people in a hurry have slipped and hurt themselves.