Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-30

a 6ne that would jar them loose re-
marked Mr.. Taggart Then We could
break this up. Look what happened
when the city court started giving $50
fines TO people who passed standing
street cars The newspapers make head
lines out Of il every time a stiff fine is
imposed and as a result we don't have
very many people driving around station
ary street ears. You hear the brakes
screech every time the traction car stops
FOLKS done forget so fines in a minute
DO Won know what that fellow is
up against down there? Well. Pritch
ard is up against your friends. my
friends, all our friends. They come to
us and ask us to get somebody of and
We say. Nothing doing What do they
dc. They go right down there and use
our names. urging the judge 10 let their
friends OF light Somebody thus has
killed of two-thirds Of the cases the po-
lice have brought in. We'd straigbten
out all this if they'd just stick a few Of
them down there in that court.
THINKS TRAFFIC MAN
HAS PLAUSIBLE EXCUSE
You. Mr. Noblett. have complaints
from your members that traffic men get
rough What else can they do: Why the
only thing they can do IS to get rough.
If they do arrest anybody. it doesn't do
any good They 20 down 10 court and
then the violator gets Off. Why. say. II
was up against the proposition those
traffic men are. I'd blow mp too. They
know the fellow who runs past their
block can't even be Jared with a little
fine"
Yes" interposed Mt NcWhirter. land
when they do go down to court likely as
not they have to wait around an hour
after the regular hour before court con
venes~
There's no set Of traffic regulations
in the world that will work unless they
are enforced" continued Mr.. Taggart.
Mr. Noblett requested that the board
set him right upon the right of way
regulations now in force in indianapolis.
He said he understood the new State
traffic law providing that rhe man On
the right has the right-of-way is in -
feet, excepting that boulevards take
precedence.
Mr. Taggart said Mr. Noblett was in
error; that the city traffic ordinance.
passed more than a year ago. is in ef-
feet and that it provides that all north
and south streets have the right-Of-way
excepting Washington street. East New
York street from the Big -Four Railroad
tracks to Emerson avenue. all bOulevards
and the four diagonal avenues. and ex-
cepting at corners where there are silent
policemen or mushroom lights, in which
case traffic to the right has preference.
GOING To HAVE
RULE PRINTED.
Because there are a large number OF
people who do not understand this. I
am going 10 have circulars bearing this
rule widely distributed" Mr.. TaggsFt
Il A. u.
here because the State law is different
from the city ordinance.
This led to a general discussion Of the
traffic ordinance.
wen have better and a safer city
when we have fat parking all over town.
r thirty minute parking limit and the
State rule Of the man on the right has
tie risht-of-way," said Mr.. Taggart.
We've never caught up with our
traffic. No other city has. New York
City hasn't. Chicago hasn't. And they're
both spending millions or dollars on
traffic improvements
Safety isles for pedestrians crossing
Meridian street at intersections all the
way from Washington to Pratt streets
are 10 be painted on the pavement soon.
Mr.. Taggart said. These will be similar
to the isles in use on Michigan boulevard
in Chicago. adOrding a safe stopping
stream while attempting to cross the
street
SAYS COOPERATION
WILL BE BIG HELP.
Mr.. Tsggart recalled that a new traffic
ordinance has lain dormant in the city
council for six or seven months.
This ordinance has some improve
ments over the old" he said. But give
rs what we've got backed mp by the man
down there" waving toward the city
court building.
The resignation OF TraEicman Worth
ington A. Clary was accepted. Thurman
floyd. David 7. Curran. Charncey W
Snider and Otis L. Hyner were appointed
batrolmen and Fleming Lindsay aud
Wolfe Reiss were appOir ted substitute
dremen.
Fireman John Allen # Pumper Com
pany No. Is was recommended for
pension because of physical disability.
Building permits issued for the week
endded Aug- q. tOtaled 2S4 in number
ind S2S6 So IN value. the report Of Build
nc Commissioners Walter B. Stern
ihowed.