25 SEPTEMBER 1953, Page 6

The Regimented Roadside If it is really necessary for every

bus stop on every country road to be marked by an eight-foot-high steel post painted in black and white stripes, need these erections be surmounted by the legend " Bus Stop " ? I suppose you must have some- thing which, as well as being fairly indestructible, is con- spicuous enough to be easily located after dark; but I should have thought the travelling public could quite quickly be educated to recognise less explicit and less expensive land- marks. A mile-stone on a moor or under a hedgerow is a pleasant object; I don't think the same can be said of these zebroid uprights.