The Detroit times., 1915-11-18
TO REVIVE
OLD AUTO
ORDINANCE
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and also TO come TO a full stop at
every street car crossing.
This will be the most drastic traf-
fic ordinance on the city books, IL It
is passed, and will have the effect OF
driving vehicular traffic off Wood
ward-ave. and other streets where
the car service Is frequent II will
force automobile drivers 10 use John
R.st. and Cass-ave. instead OF Wood
ward-ave. The enforcement OF the
proposed ordinance will also tend
TO decrease the number OF accidents
caused by careless drivers hitting
people trying to get on and of street
cars.
Aid. Littlefleld's ordinance ia SINH
lar to the one that he introduced in
the council in 1911 over the strenu-
ous objection of Frank II. Croul,
then police commissioner. Commits
sioner Croul contended that the
measure was too drastic. To prove
his assertion. he brought more than
3 600 complaints against motor
drivers the first 4S hours that the
measure was on the books. His OPP
position finally killed the ordinance.
Commissioner -Croul stationed
men at car sidings that were not
used more than a few times a year
and they made a complaint az
every motorist whol allied to stop
before crossing the tracks" said Aid.
Littlefield, Thursday morning. "The
commissioner set out deliberately TO
make Joke of the ordinance and he
succeeded. In the new ordinance
the provision for hating motor cars
at street car crossings will be modi-
fed so that II will be capable of
reasonable enforcement.
"If Police Commissioner Gillespie
Is willing to work with the council
and properly enforce the proposed
new ordinance. street conditions
will be bettereo."
Traffic conditions In Detroit have
got to improve" was Mayor Mark s
comment when he read the daily list
OF killed and injured, Thursday.
ut is UP to every department head
TO do his duty and see that every
thing possible is done To better traf-
fic conditions. will Immediately
start an investigation to determine
the cause OF the increasing number
or street accidents II the trouble
is in our law, then I will take 90
/ N fk.. 10 II -
VIII be possible to convict a careless
automobile driver who kills a pedes-
trian. of manslaughter. under.
stand that IL is now almost impossi-
BILE TO make such a charge stand"
Mayor Marx was not In his office
more than half an hour, Thursday
morning. before a private citizen
called 10 complaint against the dan
gerous condition OF the streets.
James p. Cummiskey. president OF
the Ohio e Michigan Coal Co. who
lives at No. 1877 Lawrence-ave.. told
the mayor that the dangerous trafilc
conditions in Detroit is gettig on his
nerves
uhNt dUOhN utIlutu Nu IuONt
outside the city limits" he said u
have small children. and every time
I pick up n newspaper and read the
list OF killed and injured, the cold
chills run up and down my back.
II is positively dangerous 10 cross
Woodward-ave. at any point outside
the traffic zone. There are not
enough motorcycle officers out
Woodward-ave. TO keep the automo-
bile drivers from violating every
known ordinance and state law.
have even seen heavv trucks hitting
OF 40 miles an hour right on w
ward-ave."
Mr.. Cummiskey had a personal
complaint TO make TO the mayor
against the police department Re
Gently an automobile struck one OF
Mr.. Cummiskey's workmen, who
was boarding a car AZ Jefferson and
ontInental-aves The recklessness Of
the driver was so apparent that the
street car motorman attempted 10
attack him with a switch bar, An