MOTORIST HUMMOCKS.
An ingenious method of preventing excessive speed by motorists, and of chastening the "road hog," has been adopted by the Long Island (New York) Railway and the Committee of Safety of the Long Island Automobile Club. The average "road hog" who in fests the American highways cares nothing for levfl-crossings, and his recklessness in dashing across a railway line without regard to danger signals frequently results in a terrible catastrophe. . Concrete hummocks a foot high are now bejng erected across the highways on each aide of a level-crossing 150 ft therefrom, and motorists will thus be compelled to slow down as they approach the railway line. "If they don't," fcaid a railway official, "and they insist on going over one oftiese hummocks at full speed, they will get a shock sufficient to jar their teeth loose." If the scheme is successful it may be adopted for all highways, and not confined to railway crossings alone.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3021, 19 October 1908, Page 3
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157MOTORIST HUMMOCKS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3021, 19 October 1908, Page 3
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