Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-06-20
D c A r R o L Z

stops within a radius of five blocks, they
can use any thoroughfare irrespective of
class designation, otherwise they must
! enter and leave these designated streets
at the nearest intersecting street The
exceptions to the street class regulations
are fire apparatus, United States mail
wagons, ambulances, newspaper delivery
vehicles, and vehicles Of licensed physics
ians =
Eleven streets are ON the list exclusive.
~ for commercial vehicles, mostly north
and south arteries of travel seldom fan
cied for passenger vehicular traffic.
Not long ago New York awoke to the
knowledge it was running its traffic in
| the streets upon ordinances adopted. las
far back as 1850. antedating even the
forming of the greater city. One Of these
archaic laws gave the absolute right Of
way to vehicles going north and south.
That is all right for Manhattan where the
main streets run In those directions, but
not in Brooklyn and the other boroughs
, that Joined up in 1898. The latter had
many important east and west thorough
fares. The north and south right Of way
is being changed to give the vehicle on
the right the right of way. The speed Of
vehicles within the city is also being cut
down from fifteen, twenty and twenty five
miles an hour respectively to twelve, If
teen and eighteen miles an hour.
By special police regulations there have
| been created Ill "one-way traffic" streets
in the borough of Manhattan. Ne We
! hide is permitted to stop with its left
side to the curb, except on a one-way
traffic street.
In the metropolis the maintenance Of
vehicular order in the streets Is in a
| large degree left TO the discreet on and
sound Judgment of the big, fne3picke(
fellows in blue uniform who are membe
of the traffic force Of the police. S0msa
of these traffic cops" along Fifth ave-
nue. have had their posts for long
time. Jim" Milan has been semaphoring
at Fifty Eighth street for sixteen years;
Soldier" Kennedy at Thirty Fourth
street for ten years; Emil Spies at
Fifty Fourth street, and Dan Sullivan
at Fifty Second street, each for more
than eight years. r.
when l was a roundsman In Broad%
way back in 1890" said Lieut. MICHAEL
Snyder today, 1--WE had six men in Fifth
ayenue-two each at Twenty Third,
Thirty Fourth and Forty Second streets
and now we have eightytw men alto
gether IN the great shopping avenue
sbuth Of Central Park"
On Aug 1 Of this year will go into
effect the traffic warning card" ystem,
Under which a driver of a car has i've
chances to fail through ignorance" be-
fore getting the unwelcome fatal court
summons The exception is speeding, for
which there is no mercy under the
thou shalt not kill" policy Of the big
! town.
There are about twelve minor infrac-
tons Of the vehicle law which will get no
worse than a hole punched in a drivers
traffic warning card What local car
owners do not Ike about the card is that
| 1t must carry photograph OF the driver.
I suppose all of this motor lore and
vehicle law in the metropolis is of in
| terest to the 100000 automobile owners
in the United States. As for ourselves,
We still walk and are doing our level
| best to keep off a slab at the morgue.