Evening star., 1925-10-31
BARRING Of TRUCKS
ON SOME STREETS
ASKEDBY ELDR|DCE
Would Allow Hard-Tired We
hicIes on Designated List
for Deliveries Only.
WANTS PEDESTRIANS
TO ABIDE BY SIGNALS
Proposed Regulations Would Bar
Right-Hand Turns at
Red Light.

The texts Of Z number of proposed
changes in the traffic code which
have been submitted to the Commits
sioner by Traffic Director Eldridge
We're made public today, and include
as one outstanding innovation a new
rule which would prevent solid tire
commercial vehicles and horse drawn
vehicles from operating on certain
except for the purpose
of delivering q commodity on such
thoroughfares.
The proposed changes have not been
acted upon by the Commissioner, but
We're given out as recommendations
under consideration.
The list includes certain fixed
changes in the parking time for the
congested district, to permit two-hour
by the Commissioner.
Rule for Pedestrians.
Mr.. Eldridge also has submitted pro-
posed regulations providing that pedes-
trians shall obey the instructions of
traffic officers or traffic devices at con-
trolled intersections. This rule further
provides that pedestrians shall not
cross the roadway through moving
traffic on any street upon which traf-
f1c Is controlled by electric signal
lights.
The Traffic Director also explained
that Corporation counsel Stephens has
ruled that the speed limit cannot be
increased on boulevard highways. but
can be increased on what are known
as arterial highways.
The traffic director further explained
that under this ruling the main thor
in the outlying portions of
the city viii be known as arterial high
ways and the main thoroughfares
within the thickly built-up portion Of
the city will be listed as boulevard
He emphasized, however,
that even after the Commissioners
have acted upon the proposed changes
no increased speed limit will be in ef-
feet on an arterial highway, except
when a sign has been posted showing
the-new speed.
Text OF Regulation. 4
The texts of the proposed new regu-
lations restricting solid tire COM
trucks and horSe-drawn ve-
hicles reads as follows:
Commercial vehicles, equipped with
solid tires, and horse-drawn vehicles
shall not be operated on Sixteenth
street between II street and Colo
RADIO avenue; New Hampshire avenue
between Washington Circle and u
street; Rhode Island avenue between
avenue and North Capt.
tol street, or Massachusetts avenue
between Union Station Plaza and
Sheridan Circle, except for the pur-
pose of making delivery or loading
and for such purposes such vehicles
shall enter and leave at the nearest
to the delivery or loading
point; provided, however, that We
hicles using said highway for the
purposes herein permitted shall at
all times obey the crossing regula-
tons in force thereon"
Pedestrians Must Obey Signals.
The text of the pedestrian regula-
ton follows: Pedestrians shall have
the right of way at all crosswalks
except those controlled by traffic
officers and traffic devices, at which
points pedestrians shall obey the in
structions of the traffic officer or
traffic device. Pedestrians shall not
cross the roadway through moving
traffic on any street upon which
traffic is controlled by electrical
signal lights"
The ruling of the corporation coun-
sci that boulevard highways and
highways are different in
that special speed limits can only
be applied to arterial thoroughfares
made it necessary for the traffic
director to rewrite the existing
boulevard regulation.
Boulevard and Arterial.
In it's new form the proposed rule
does not create new through high
ways. but divides the existing ones
into boulevard stop highways" and
'arterial highways" as follows:
Sixteenth street northwest from H
street to y street, Vermont avenue
from Thomas Circle to Florida avenue,
Sixth street northwest from G street
to Florida avenue, Florida avenue and
Ninth street from Sixth street north
west to Sherman avenue, Sherman
avenue from Florida avenue to Newt
avenue. New Hampshire
avenue from Sherman avenue to
Georgia avenue, Eighteenth street
from Massachusetts avenue to Co
lumbia road, Calvert street from
A dams Mill road to Connecticut ave-
lue, Massachusetts avenue from Stan
ton Square to Sheridan Circle, @
street from Wisconsin avenue to
avenue, M street from
l. liz y -llltH SlIccI 10 FenQSylVdnla
avenue, Pennsylvania avenue from M
street to Washington Circle, New
avenue from Washington
Circle to U street, Rhode Island ave-
nue. from Connecticut avenue to
Fourth street northeast, South Dakota
avenue from Rhode Island avenue to
road, Pennsylvania ave-
nue. southeast from Second street to
Ellicott Circle, New York avenue and
Mount Vernon place from Sixth to
Ninth streets northwest
"Arterial MISUNDERSTANDING street
from U street to Alaska avenue, Alas
ka avenue from Sixteenth street to
Georgia avenue, Georgia avenue from
New Hampshire avenue to the District
line, Connecticut avenue from Florida
avenue to the District line, Massachu-
setts avenue from Sheridan Circle to
the District line, Wisconsin avenue
from Massachusetts avenue to the
District line, River road from Wiscon.
sin avenue to the District line, Rhode
Island avenue from Fourth street
northeast to the District line, Bladens-
burg road from Fifteenth and Fl
streets northeast to the District line,
avenue southeast from
Ellicott Circle to Alabama avenue, Ala.
bama avenue and Bowen road from
avenue to the District
line, Good Hope road from Nichols
avenue to Naylor road, Naylor road
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