AN INTERESTING MODE OF TRAFFIC CONTROL.
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AS motor traffic, both heavy and light, increases, a matter which is becoming of greater and greater importance is the control of vehicles coming from side roads into main roads. At present, the law looks upon users of both kinds of road as having equal rights, whereas common sense dictates that the party coming in from the side road shouM come in or across the main road with increased caution.
At the spot shown in our photograph the juncture of two important Liverpool roads (one leading to the towns of St. Helens, Prescot, etc., and the other running from one end of . the city to the other), accidents or collisions were occurring almost weekly, many of them being of a serious nature. The matter occasioned much anxious thought to the city engineer's department, who studied the intersection very carefully. Ultimately it was decided to erect a definite obstruction or refuge in the middle of tbe road carrying the less important traffic, placing it in such a position that, during the dark hours, the refuge could carry and display a.red light , to anilines of traffic.
Although the road is wide enough for four vehicles, the intersection compels all traffic to pass this point in single file, and, the obstruction being placed in a very challenging position drivers are compelled to go slowly. The intersection, by leaving room for the safe passage of
one vehicle only in each direction on the secondary road, has done away, almost entirely, with accidents at this point.