The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-10-14
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URGED TOAD
PEDESTRIANS
Police Chief Hopes for -More
Uniform Traffic Signal
System Here.
COMMITTEE TO CONFER
Board Of Safety to Ponder
Problem At Conference
On Monday.
COMMITTEE TO CONFER

Proper regulation OF pedestrian
traffic will aid greatly in solution OF
the Indianapolis downtown traffic
problem, in the opinion of Police
Chief Claude M. Worley.
IF we can devise some satisfac-
tory system for governing pedes-
trians, it will be big step in the
right direction. We are only pio-
neering in traffic in Indianapolis
and now is an opportune time to
catch up with some other Cities"
Worley declared.
with increasing number Of autos
every year, the situation is becoming
more complex. Toll of death through
traffic accidents is one of our big
problems. 4
Need Uniform Signals
"Any system which we would I'M
dertake to put in effect should be
tried out on the busy downtown
corners. A uniform system of sig
mails on all streets should be worked
out. AS it is, a motorist finds one
type signal at one street and an
other at the next. corner.
millions of dollars will be spent
over the country in the next few
years in properly controlling auto
traffic"
Worley said he believed more cleo
trio signals are needed here. He
said the department would be ham
dicapped in enforcing pedestrian
regulations with its present force.
The board of safety named COM
mittee to study pedestrian regula-
tons in other Cities, with the view
Of establishment of a plan here. The
boards action followed suggestions
Of citizens that the persons who
walk are not shown proper consid-
Grafton under present traffic regula-
lions.
Committee to Meet
The committee, composed of Todd
Stops, Hoosier Motor Club man
ager; Robert Scrogin, Hoosier Mo-
torist editor, and representatives of
newspapers, will meet with Chief
Worley and safety board members,
Frederick w. Connell, Robert Miller
and Ira Haymaker, Monday at the
Columbia Club. The committee will
go over the plans used in other cit
les.
In Cleveland, O., where pedestrian
traffic is said to be regulated sue
cessfully, the pedestrians move at
the sam etime and in the same di-
rection as autos. If a person steps
from the curb and attempts to cross
the street against the traffic signal,
an officer takes him by the arm and
aids him back to the curb. Arrest
follows repetition of the violation.
At Ninth and Euclid Ave-, the
principal downtown corner, neither
right nor left turns are permitted
at all during the twenty-four hours.
The committee will study a sugges-
ton that. eliminatio nof right turns
on washington st. in the business
district would eliminate a large
part Of the traffic hazard. -.
Lives Are Imperiled
With the present Indianapolis city
code, pedestrians skip between autos,
disregarding the policemans signals.
The practice eudangers lives of per-
sons who walk and often confuses
drivers.
In Oklahoma City, pedestrians
move north and south and east and
west with the motor traffic, the same
as Cleveland's plan, except that a
bell signal is used to denote the
change. The bell is augmented by
lights at night.
Write your views on how to con-
troll indianapolis pedestrian traffic
to the Traffic Editor of The Times.