A road authority that exercises its statutory power to design and construct a road with expressway characteristics, and makes provision for pedestrian access including a subway, owes a duty of care to pedestrians to erect adequate signage indicating the existence and location of the subway. The distinction between warning signs and informational signs is relevant to causation: the judicial scepticism about hypothetical obedience to warning signs does not apply with equal force to informational signage that is a design requirement. Contributory negligence of 60% was assessed for a 16-year-old pedestrian who crossed seven lanes of 70 km/h traffic despite being young, worried and in unfamiliar surroundings.
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