_The Evening Post_, 28 Nov 1923:
GO-AS-YOU-PLEASE
CITY’S CASUAL TRAFFIC
STRICTER CONTROL ADVOCATED
“DUMB POINTSMEN” ON DUTY
“It appears to me,” remarked a visitor to Wellington from England and the United States…, “that your motorists and walkers in this city are pretty haphazard and casual in the way they get through the city, and that as one thing only will put them on the right lines, you should go in for that right away before the habit becomes too firmly ingrained. Your traffic control here is not what it should be.”…
STREET SIGNS AND TRAFFIC LINES.
Courtenay place, he considered, was an ideal locality… to try out the more successful of the various “dumb pointsmen” dodges, which were adopted everywhere in the States and in England at points where the stationing of a pointsman proper was not perhaps warranted.… probably the most generally favoured was a slightly raised dome, brightly painted and so placed as to divert traffic to either side. At night the domes were lit by electric globes, showing red and green or merely white lights,…. Paving lines were also remarkably effective in controlling traffic, the most common form being simply a wood block with a white rubber top let into the ordinary paving…
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