4 JANUARY 1952, Page 22

On and Off the Zebra

SIR,—" Let's talk of zebras." Surely, the point is we've talked too much about zebras and too little about the rest of the road; for the trouble is not what occurs on a crossing but what happens off it. At the moment, the motorist has to be so pre-occupied watching for the individual who steps off the pavement into the road anywhere (especially about 50 yards short of a crossing) that he has no time to concentrate on the zebra itself.

If in central London it were made compulsory for pedestrians to cross by the zebras, and not anywhere else, the much-abused driver would be able to give his whole mind tb the job and the problem would be well .on the way to being solved.—Yours faithfully,