Evening star., 1925-01-11
CLEVELAND BANS PEAK PERIOD
PARKING AND SPEEDS UP AUTOS
Cleveland Cars S,Uept From Resting Places Main
Streets at Busy Hours-Tra6ic Mouing at
Maximum, Legal Speed.

vices used IN regulating traff1c are
also needed" says the report. This
includes signs and safety zones,
whatever automatic signals may be
recommended by the traffic commits
sioner and extending the use of white
lines for the marking of streets.
with the addition of more traffic
police and more mechanical signals
and the speeding up of traffic 1T VIII
be possible to regulate jay-walkfng
to large extent.
THE boulevard stop ordinance
should be revised by the elimination
Of certain streets and the addition
of others, in the light of experience
gained since Its passage a few months
ago"
In this connection Cleveland has
established more than so boulevard
stop streets and has found that it
materially speeds up traffic. All cars
on streets intersecting a boulevard
are required to come to dead stop
before entering and the rule is rig1dly
enforced.
Elimination of parking during rush
hours on main thoroughfares and en-
forcement Of the stop at boulevard
intersection has already shown itself
the equivalent of an additional high
speed highway from the center OF the
city to the outlying district, club OFF,
cials believe.
Obeys State Regulations.
In regard to the speed question,
the city of Cleveland is in the posi-
tion of having to obey the State reg
ulations even though there might be
highways in the city on which
higher speed was safe.
Both the automobile club and Traf-
fc Commissioner Donahue believe
| that in very few cases is an accident
caused solely by speed. The commits
sioner said that in his rs years ex-
perience on the police force there has
| nearly always been some other angle,
| such as carelessness of pedestrian or
driver, recklessness, inexperience,
drunkenness or incompetency.
The policy of the Cleveland police,
| inaugurated yesterday with the park
ing ban, will be to encourage motor
lists to keep up to the speed limit
| but not beyond II. 1t a steady pace
of Is miles an hour can be main
tanned in the congested sections and
20 miles an hour on the boulevard
| streets, police believe that traffic
| jams will become thing Of the past.
Road hogs" those who refuse to
| pull over to the right to let others
pass, and 'laggards," those who are
out for a leisurely drive along the
crowded thoroughfares, will be COM
PEELED to use side streets. The police
are determined that traffic shall move
at we'll ordered and uniform rate.
/ Commissioner Donahue expressed
amazement yesterday when told that
! Washington was having serious diff
culties with traffic.
! DO you mean to say that you have
| trouble there?" he asked. "I thought
that perhaps we were having all the
\ trouble there?" he asked 81 thought
out here. l understand that Con-
! gress always appropriated money for
anything you needed in Washing
| ton"
At this point club officials who ac-
| companied The Star representative at
| the interview were compelled to sup
port him, as 1t looked as If he were
| going to faint.
| I'VE are going ahead now with a
| fine modern program for traffic de-
| velopment," the Commissioner said.
| due to the report that the automo-
| bile club has made, and in which 1
| heartily concurred, / believe that we
will be able to eliminate a great
| many of the evils which we have
| been unsuccessfully combating in the
past.
| having trouble in Washington 1 think
| that in Inspector Headley you have a
| good man and given the proper equip
ment and personnel, your troubles
| should end. We realize here that
adequate police are needed and that a
| large amount Of money must be spent
on equipment to properly control a city.
! Although We have a good many more
automobiles in Cleveland than you do
in Washington, 1 think that many of
| the remedies apply equally to both
| ctties''