Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-11
Committee FaVorS Greater
Number of Agencies to Han
die Local Situation.
WOULD HAVE SEPARATE
COURT WITH 2 JUDGES
New System for Handling Permits
for Operators Is Also
Recommended.

Fundamental changes in the set-lp of
organizations controlling traffic in the
District in the nature of franc rer,,la-
tons and in the policy of enforcing
some regulations now on the books were
recommended 10 the District Commits
sioners last night by the Traffic Advisory
Council and Committee set up by Com
missioner Herbert B. Crosby last Sum
mer TO advise the Commissioners on the
best way to solving many of the trafic
problems now besetting the District.
The council and committee had
Joint meeting in Gen. Crosby's office.
reports from seven subcommittee were
presented and adopted. Two more re-
nam and they VIII be presented at
meeting at 8 O'Clock Monday, October
20.
AS to the agencies controlling traffic.
the committees reported in favor of
greatly increasing their number, The
traffic director and his assistant would
become the traffic engineer and assist
ant traffic engineer and the activities
OF the office be confined to "trafic
engineering research and such recon-
mendatlonS relating to traffic signals
devices, signs, markings and regulations
as engineering research might dictate"
Would Create Once.
A new officer reporting directly to
the Police Commissioner and RESPONSE
BILE only to him would be given the
duties now lodged in the assistant traf-
nc director, having to do with the rev.
ocation and suspension of operators
permits The registration and issuance
OF certificates of title under the title
law, which was recommended will be
transferred from the License Bureau
to the present Traffic Bureau
The work Of examining applicants
Tor operators permits would be trans
Ierred from the traffic directors ONCE
TO the Traffic Bureau.
All activities having to do with the
manufacture, painting, storage and
erection, specification and location of
all permanent street and highway
markers, buttons signs, standard re-
Electors. etc, would be transferred from
The Sundry departments in which they
now lie to the Highway Department.
1t was recommended that new or.
ganization set up to be known as the
permanent traffic board and composed
Of delegates from the corporation
counsels office. the Public Utilities
Commission the Traffic Bureau, the
traffic engineers Office and the High
way Department. Such board would
co-ordiate all traffic problems as they
relate TO the. various departments and
review all recommendations pertaining
TO traffic after their submission to the
Board of Commissioners.
Permanent Traffic Council.
1t was also recommended that an
other new organization, a permanent
nff 1ia1 frslfT 11 Arfl ~ Nil
would consist of private citizens who
live in the District of Columbia and
qualified for appointment to the council
by the Board Of Commissioners, and
whose duties would consist of making
recommendations to the Board of Com
misSioners on such traffic problems and
policies as shall be referred to it by the
Commissioners or such as it might orig
mate"
These changes were called for in the
report Of the subcommittee on per-
manent traffic organizations, of which
G. b. Clark of the American Automobile
Association is chairman. When the
recommendations came to the vote both
Traffic Director William H Harland
and Assistant Maurice o. Eldridge voted
in favor of them.
Another new organizati ton would be
traffic violation bureau operating
similarly TO those now in force in Chi
cago and Detroit. This was recon-
mended by the committee on enforce
ment
Another committee that on operat-
ing regulations, recommended that the
Traffic Court be entirely disassociated
and separated from the Police Court
and that two competent judges be APP
pointed to handle traffic cases only
and that the sessions of the Trafic
Court be held III chambers outside of
and removed from the Police Court.
Want Model Acts.
On the matter of the new regulations
or changes in the present regulations,
81 recommendation was made calling for
adoption of the uniform motor vehicle
registration act the uniform motor
vehicle certificate of title law, the uni
form act regulating traffic on highways,
the model municipal traffic ordinances
and the enactment of safety respon-
sibility bill
The first four of these were taken
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