Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05

VERY day one is hearing
more of the model municipal
traffic ordinance, as adopted
by the National Conference
on Street and Highway Safety
More and more will be heard from
time to time, because 1t was pro-
mulgated in the interests of
safety, and wise officials in various
cities and towns throughout the
United States are realizing the i'm
portance of uniformity, and are
urging its adoption for their ma
tive haunts.
Perusal of the ordinance in its
long entirety is task. Lately its
significant features have been
"boiled down" to Is short para
graphs, both readable and under
standable. These terse provisions
are as follows:
Enforcement Measures.
1. Confers authority upon and
makes it the duty of the police
department to enforce provisions
Of the ordinance, direct all traffic
by person or visible or audible sig
nal, and provides penalties for
failure or refusal of persons to
comply with lawful orders, signals
or directions of police officers.
2. Public employees driving We
hicles shall obey traffic rules and
regulations, unless operating an
authorized emergency vehicle en-
gagged in emergency work, or in
the necessary performance of
public duties.
8. Provides for the adoption Of
uniform official traffic signs, sig
mails, beaconS and markers.
4. Provides for the installation
of traffic control signals or lights
on streets where traffic is heavy
in order to increase the speed and
movement Of vehicles and safe
guard pedestrians.
5. Provides that where traffic
signals are used the movement of
traffic shall be directed by the
words STOP" "go" or caution" or
wait" or by the use of colored
lights.
6. Where colored lights are used
"red" shall indicate STOP" green"
shall indicate "go," and yellow"
Va wall.
z. Provides that pedestrians
shall be given the right of way
over vehicles at all crossings, or
crosswalks, except where traffic is
regulated by an officer or by sig
nails
8. When any vehicle has stopped
at q crosswalk or intersection to
permit a pedestrian to cross, it is
made unlawful for another We
hicle from the rear to overtake or
pass such stopped vehicle.
Anent Pedestrians.
8. Pedestrians crossing streets
in midblock or elsewhere than
crosswalks shall yield right of way
to vehicles on the roadway pro-
vided that the driver is not re-
lieved from the study of exercising
due care for the safety Of pedes-
TRANS.
10. Provides rules regarding
driving past street cars and pro-
vides that vehicles must not re-
main on street car tracks after
the street car has signaled.
Il. Provides that railway trains
and street cars shall not block
streets. 7s
IL. Provides that vehicles shall
not stop in certain specified places
on streets including an intersec-
ton, crosSwalk, or between a
safety zone and the adjacent curb.
Is. Provides for the creation of
loading zones for passengers and
freight vehicles.
IL. Buses and taxicabs are pro-
hibited from parking in places
other than their designated stands
or zones, except as they may be
permitted to stop at other places
TO take on or let off passengers.
Is. Provides that parking shall
be entirely prohibited in certain
places and at certain times and
that parking time shall be limited
in certain designated places.
Is. Provides that no vehicle be
permitted to park in such a man
ner that less than 10 feet of the
width of the road remains avail
able for the free movement Of
traffic.
II. Provides that all-night park
ing is prohibited.
10. Provides that the use of a
vehicle on the streets for the pri-
mary purpose Of displaying adver-
tising shall be prohibited, and also
that parking upon a street Of a
vehicle displayed for sale shall be
unlawful.
10. Provides that all vehicles
shall keep on the right side Of the
street, and that slow moving
vehicles shall keep as closely as
possible to the right curb, except
where traffic conditions make 1t
tmpracticable to do so.
20. Provides that right turns
shall be made from the traffic lane
nearest the right-hand curb, and
that left turns shall be made from
the traffic lane nearest the center
of the street. In making left turns
vehicles shall pass to the right of
the center lines Of the intersec-
ton.
Those Left Turns.
81. Provides that all left turns
shall be made on the 'go" signal,
unless otherwise directed by po-
lice officer.
%. Provides that vehicles may
not be turned to proceed in the
opposite direction unless the
movement can be made in safety
and without backing or otherwise
interfering with other traffic.
%. Provides that vehicles emerg-
ing from alleys, private roads
driveways or buildings, shall stop
Immediately before proceeding