BFW Innovations business partners Grant Woolford (left) and Vicky Steel, with inventor Larry Burns and the crossing sensor he has invented. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIENRed tape has delayed the trial of a new device which will alert drivers to people on a Dunedin pedestrian crossing. The device was created by Dunedin inventor Larry Burns after he saw a child hit on a pedestrian crossing in Kaikorai Valley last year. The NZ Transport Agency is working with the Dunedin City Council on an application to trial the device on the pedestrian crossing outside Tahuna Normal Intermediate School. "All temporary traffic control devices have to be authorised by the transport agency in order for them to be enforceable."

Source: Otago Daily Times May 23, 2019 16:39 UTC