The Washington times., 1925-05-16
Parking Regulations and Street
Railway Influences
Bv BILL PRICE.

BY BILL PR1CE.
Official hints that the present parking regulations be
modified short time in sections OF the oty not orecty
within the congested business well as in few places
within that zone will be welcome to many owners
who have accepted the convenences and possible hardsps
of parking many blocks away from their places OF employment
business destinations
II is reasonable to suppose that the adoption of parking
or other regulations aim of the Director OF Traffic Is to
serve of the greatest number OF auto drivers
and owners as well the welfare of the community as
hoe Ther are offcous overzeaous and overactive Of
world who make trouble for the puphc SIMPLY
applies to and policies Of the office OF Wasn
tons traffic director. -
IF no ufu or safety purposes by prohbve
strict parking regulations Of Traffic will
doubt streets of Washington are for the use ana
enjoyment of the people OF this city and tna notnng VIII DC
gained by refusal of parking privileges in sections where
no especial harm is done through liberal regularons
This writer has number Of crisp communications on
this subject parking Some Of them even startling In
their views and IDEAS instance the writer who believes
that street cars be refused the right operate the
congeed being required to stop their cars outside that
and transfer passengers to it through Dusses
Then there large number of people who are pos
lively convinced that the street railway OF the city
have had much to do with parking regulations which greatly
restrict all parking"
street railway corporations job taking of
their interests all parking traffic regulations The
charge less openly made long before the new
oners appointed local committees and experts to advise
traffic and parking problems
District are swayed by street railway influences
they working any game of the railways It must also be
recognized the railway companies do have i'm
the traffic problems Of Washington be-
cause they the and their schedules seriously
interered congested when there eups
blockades.
suspicion though that the street railways dominate
parking regulations with the object of boosting their travel
from who stopped from parking is doubtless
unjust them and traffic officials whose business is to
do the best thing for the most people of this town.
It is Cherrydale Va resourceul ideas who puts
the thought that street railways will have to be
eliminated from congested altogether He writes
operating take
The vuabI occupied by street
advantage for parking, thereby
the outlying dtTicts
passensers through the
could handle ana eFecs
Bness in the eonsested UOud be greatly improved
h were possible to park uith and safety"
Another angle to the parking situation has been called to
che attention of this Citizens who live in L. NJ and
streets between Twelfth Streets complain bitter
" that the aday parers who out OF the con-
1ested region now pile up in front Of their homes to such
An extent that possible to get in coal or to take
ont trash cnders garbage and other refuse This applies to
those who do not have alley their places Drivers
of coal wagons not they say get to the houses to deliver
coal. .
The auto has certainly brought curious problems
TO solve and things look we be able to solve
MANY of them the aday parkers flock to certain city
squares and enjoy convenience allowed them they in
conveniencng other citizens
After ALL we must sympathize with the man who has the
responsibility of trying do the right thing by the people
the He ism going to please everybody That can