The Washington herald., 1912-12-14
DESIRES CHANGE
IN TRAFFIC RULES
Motor Car Man Says Prohibition Of
Using Large Lamps Is
an Injustice.
EVEN NEW YORK CITY
WANTS BETTER LAWS
Plans to Include Making Fifth
Avenue a World-mown
Boulevard.

That New York City, despite the fact
that II has the most advanced set OF
traflc regulations in this country, is
not satisfied to let the subject drop
is Indicated in a well-srounded plan now
on foot to boulevard the famous Fifth
Avenue so that driving there will be q
pleasure instead of punishment for light
vehicles.
The Fifth Avenue Association and the
Bureau OF Highways Of the metropolis
are cooperating in the effort TO procure
certain radical regulations with regard
to Fifth Avenue traffic. Among the
recommendations are the following:
That no mercantile vehicle be allowed
on the avenue after l o'clock IN the
afternoon.
That no vehicle not actually occupied.
or which has been or would be occupied
within a block be allowed there after
the same hour.
That no left-hand turns, either within
block or at street crossings, be per-
mitted. To avoid these turns vehicles
circuit Of the block in order to make
direct crossing.
That vehicles be forbidden to stand on
the Avenue after / o'clock, unless for
the actual purpose OF letting a passen-
ger alight or OF taking one on.
Advocates Large Safety Lights.
A strong protest against the existing
regulation in Washington prohibiting the
use of large safety lights on automobiles
is contained IN a letter addressed TO the
Commissioners yesterday by f K. Fox,
local automobile owner The letter
reads as follows:
Gentlemen: Your honorable body has
forbidden all motors from burning their
large safety lights, which is a decided
Injustice and q menace to public safety,
and unless the streets are kept In better
condition this order should be revoked.
Broken glass, which is fatal to costly
rubber tires, is present everywhere in
our roadways. and the innumerable ruts
and holes allowed to remain untitled and
without the protection OF warning LIANT
erns. are destructive in the extreme to
every automobile that encounters them.
In confirmation OF this, please observe
the condition OF the roadway on Twelfth
Street, to the south OF Massachusetts,
Avenue. and at Washington Circle. on
the south side, both OF which quite re-
Gently caused me much surprise and did
my cars no good. And only a few nights
ago my car ran over a cEild's toy
wagon which had been left in the street.
and il became so enmeshed in the run
ming gear II had TO be chopped to pieces
that It might be removed. In all these,
and other instances. the light from the
large lamps would have disclosed the
Instructions in time to be avoided.
These lights surely can hurt no one
and they really are a great protection TO
ourselves and to our machines upon
which We are compelled TO pay 60 many
permits and other fees and excessive
taxes. They are likewise a protection to
the numerous skaters. and to that type
of bone-headed humanity that persist in
walking in the streets instead Of upon
the sidewalks provided for them and who
are not required to bear a lamp or sound
q horn.
This regulation had better be speedily
corrected before many persons are in
tured and before the District will be
obliged to pay heavily for damages GER
| tain to follow II It is allowed to remain
in force