The Washington times., 1925-05-18
With the
|AlibiArtists
la Cross Section of the
| Daily Grind in Judge
Schuldt's Court.
Read EN- and Weep
BY DONALD McDOUGAL.
A Tangled Skein.

TWelItn ana MaSSdCnuS0llS dN
enue the other evening about
O'Clock: The place looked like
a poultry yard at feeding time
with a big sightseeing bus Tor
the rooster.
We went around there next
evening at 4:30 SOS to see the
jam collect. The tide was just
coming in, up Twelfth street,
and the cop was putting out
from the curbstone, to open the
sluice gates.
Up toward Thirteenth street
girl was climbing into a limousine
and we were afraid she was 60
ing to slip and crack her snln'
The step was high, and her
skirt was tight, so we watched
pretty close. We wanted to De
ready to help If anything nap
pened, but it didn't, as usual
and when she shut the door we
went back to the traffic questlon'
Traffic CaIisthenics.
The cop was knee-deep IN
flivvers and was waving his
arms like an octopus in despair:
We lodged over there and asked
him if he was doing his daily
dozen, and he said. mo; just a
little work with the dumboells
and we lodged back again.
About half the traffic along there
comes ID Twelfth or Thirteenth
streets for a left-hand turn INTO
Massachusetts avenue. A good
sized quota comes from the d1rec-
tion of Eleventh street and heads
for Thomas Circle. Now and tnen
one of them stops for left-hand
turn south into Twelfth or TIlr-
teenth street, and gums the game:
At Thirteenth street we counteu
eight jams in twenty minutes, ana
every one of them was When
someone tried to pull left turn
from Massachusetts avenue. Three
of them didn't turn sharp enough
and bumped q curbstone at the
southwest corner.
Before they could hack but they
had to wait for two or three other
cars to move, and the two or
three others had to wait for
others, and so on, like something
brother, ad inflnitum.
The MOrgue, Likely.
We tried to figure out what
they do that for, end gave it up.
Where anybody can get to by
running west On Massachusetts
avenue and turning south into
Twelfth or Thirteenth, that Shey
can't get to by running west On X
or L, sets our intellect knocking.
Quite a lot Of traffic originating
north Of the Avenue finds it neees-
sary to make left turn during
the rush hours---4:30 to 5:SQ-with.
in those two Congested blocks.
It's harder for a simple country
lad to understand why they can't
/ run through NJ or n street un-
til they're past the scrimmage,
and then cross the Avenue or
turn into it, as the case may be.
They Can't Turn.
Northwest-bound traffic hasn't
any other channel to follow along
there-all the north-bound streets
are pretty well filled about that
time, and they've got to make
those left hand turns into the
Avenue.
Looks like it would help some
to let them make the turn with
out obstruction, and have it over
with. You could detour non-es-
sential traffic away from there
the same as you would from a
! fire.
"A few signs, prohibiting, during
the rush hours, all left-hand
turns except those destined west;
it might be worth painting. Some
thing might be done to detour
! part of that east bound traffic
! away from there during the rush
/ hours, too-all the cars we saw
| had steering wheels on them.
| Another Jam.
| In the new regulations a
| safety zone" is defined as that
| part of the street indicated by
| stanchions, by platform, by an
official sign or by painted lines;
| so a cross-walk indicated by paint
ed lines, is a safety zone.
Under paragraph (b). section
| three, you can't drive within one
while it is occupied or about to
be occupied.
What a jam there will be at
| Thirteenth and f when they get
| to enforcing that regulation!