The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-18
NE W TRAIT IC LAW SENTENCED TO D|E
Commission To Make Drastic Notifications At Meeting
 Tuesday Morning

Birmingham's new traffic code was ton its last legs Monday evening at the conclusion of a lengthy confer ence of the city commission. The knockout blow will be dealt when the 10 o'clock Tuesday morning.
 / All hope of prolonged life for the code, which went into effect less than three weeks ago, vanished when Commissioner w. B. Cloe. its chief defender. came out of the confer ence and announced the result in these words:
 They're going to tear 1t all to pieces Tuesday"
 Although all commissioners except MT. Cloe were agreed that drastic notifications were necessary, they were somewhat at variance as to how far these changes should go.
 Commissioner W. l.. Harrison had an amendment ready to- introduce which kills parallel parking every where and allows left-hand turns at all corners. His plan would com pletely junk the ordinance.
 President McLendon's view is that parallel parking might be enforced successfully in the so-called Hoop area and that traffic conditions might be helped by prohibiting left hand turns at few downtown cor ners.
 Commissioners W. E. Dickson and Mary Echols are ready to carry out their promise to retail merchants to make drastic notifications, but they are not inclined to vote to completely nullify the new law.
 Close observers at city hall look for adoption of an amended ordi- nance that will continue some of the regulations in force and at the same time give the traffic relief which the business interests have demanded. Such a measure. it is believed, Will be a compromise between the pro- posals made by President McLendon and Commissioner Harrison.
 The commission will meet early Tuesday morning for final confer ence before going into the regular open session, and efforts will be made to smooth out the differences.
 After the changes are agreed on and adopted. Commissioner Cloe will move to remit the fines to the 300 motorists who have been assessed Sf each for traffic violations during the past 10 days. It is expected that this proposal will receive a unani nous favorable vote.
 Merchants and leaders fof women s oreanizat tions. jubilant over the pros poets for immediate traffic relief. prepared Monday night. to attend Tuesdays session in large numbers.
 Commissioner Cloe said he would defend the ordinance to the last miaute and warn the other commis- sioners that conditions would soon bring them around and make possible the adoption of a traffic law just as drastic as the one he and Capt w. w. Brent prepared.
 The recommendations made to the city commission by the Junior Chamber of Commerce as to the traf- fife ordinance are as follows:
 That the loop area be designated as from the north curb of Fifth avenue to south curb of First avenue. From and including the west curb Of Twenty second street to and in- cluding the west surb of Eighteenth street, and on Second avenue to Twenty third street.
 That parallel parking be rigidly enforced in the loop area designated above, but not to include First avenue.
 That the enforcement of. the one hour parking be required from the west curb on Nineteenth street to the east curb of Twenty-first street; from the north curb of Fifth avenue to the. south curb of First avenue.
 "Outside of the above loop area provide for angular parking, with no time limit"