Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-11
Police Chief Would Have.
Automobiles Park With
Rear Right Wheel Five
Feet From Curb Thus Civ
ing More Space For Nov
ing Vehicles And Street
Cars. n

An appeal for closer co-operauonl
on the part Of automobile owners and
.privers particularly, for the better
observance OF traffic regulations In
Grand FORTS, was voiced by J. w.
Lowe, chief Of police, on Saturday.
effect a police regulation that will
increase by about four feet, the driv-
ing space on several streets, which
he believes wifi mean a great deal,
in congested districts. In
order to do this he Gays he must have
the support or q owners and his
suggestion is that they begin at once
to park their cars at an angle Of a triflc
less than 81 degrees. The right real
feet from the curb. He believes that
this will a great difference in
the streets on which The street cars
operate, giving about two feet more
space on each side. of the street and t
the same time allowing the driver
plenty of room to back his al out.
Chief Lowe would have this parking
system carried out in q district bound
ed on the east by The river, extending
Bruce e He said that possibly
this fall he would line the parking
spaces on the principal streets in &C
Ecordance with this idea, but II not
this fall, next spring as soon as the
snow was off the pavement and it had
| dried up.
Speaking Of the parallel parking
system, the chief said that to his mind
lit was out of the question. He argues
that it would be an imposition on the
farmer because 'he would never be
ness district TO make his purchases,
| for the reason that there would be no
parking space. He would be forced
70 leave his auto many blocks away
from where he did his buying and
| carry his goods out to where he had
been forced to park his car.
The parallel system takes up too
much room along the curb, although
it does give much more for traffic,
said the chief. and another disagree
able feature about it was the fact
that unless a driver observed the dis
lance he parked from a car in front
| Of him, it would be almost impossible
Chief Lowe stated that the other
day II was suggested to him that the
police ought to enforce the ordinance
which, prohibited a a owner from
leaving his machine more than sc
fthats1f he did he would have had tc
start with the nan who made the
suggestion. q,
"The ordinance is all right" he said
but it is a pretty difficult to enforce
it strictly for the reaso that 1t would
work a hardship on some people. Il
is again a case of the farmer and his
purchases. File drives his a in from
Of a store and goes into buys.goods
He may be in the store more thar 81
minutes and still have some other
shopping to do right in tina vicinity
He could not be asked to move hi:
Il machine several times during the time
he was doing his buying without drtv.
i ing him, away from the city. He woulc
$1eno some place else to do his trading
T.do not believe that the ORDINANCE
was meant to; cover such cases. the
chief said.h> r.st
ION the other hand, he claimed tina
most Of the business men of the city
drive down to. their places in the
morning and park their cars nearb,
, until<noon repeating the same thins
in the afternoon He said he believed
in many instances arrangements could
be made whereby it would not be
necessary to hold parking space fol
that length Of time in the congestet
districts. (. "
5He offered a suggestion that wou]t
simplify matters considerably If taker
in the proper spirit. and that was re
garding pleasure drives who use Third