TRAFFIC POLICE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY JULY 26, 1930.
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officer has been shown that by FRENCH COMBINE. turning with trafic instead of backing into it he lessens the chance of serious injury. to him- self. Balancing the body is shown to be
important factor in alertness. Even the whistle is weighed in the balance. and assigned permanently to the left hand.
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tunately it is in the most congest- ed business and shopping centres that sufflelent parking places are most difficult to find, and local authorities are faced by many dif- ficulties. Besidents in once quiet · squares may raise strong objec tions if their former seclusion is destroyed by the continuous
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It is learned that in order to
Many imaginative writers havejed and well-warmed vestibule arrival and removal of cars which of policemen is drawn continually resist the increasingly successful pictured great eities of the future where lifts would be waiting to are no longer allowed to remain by placards which Commissioner competition of American motor with sky-scraping buildings on the hoist her car to an upper storey stationary for more than a few minutes in main thoroughfares Whalen has had posted in all their car companies, especially General flat roofs of which business folk, until it was again required.
Theatres, great cinemas and Shop proprietors, who contribute` quarters, gets considerable atten Motors and, Ford, three leading shoppers, and pleasure seekers tion in the traffic school scheme of French automobile firms, Citroen, will park their private seroplanes. restaurants with roof garages may much to the rates, also complain things. Hours are devoted to Peugeot and Renault, are negotiat-The dream, or nightmare. Tay be designed, and perhaps there bitterly that their trade is injured explaining how courtesy oils the ting for the conclusion of come true, writes Capt. P. A. Bar- may come a day when we shall by harassing restrictions which machinery of urban movement. working agreement.
ron, but before this happens it is book upstairs bed rooms for our forbid motorista to stop anywhere That the rights of a pedestrian hurtling machinery
eight just as recruits are instructed that Association of these manufac-likely that we shall see car parks ears as well as for durselves in but at appointed places, which are not "the last rites" has been hours. On the other hand, no the best way to control children | turers, which for a long time was on the roof-tops of great stores, sky soaring hotel centrally placed may be at considerable distances demonstrated anew to some 2,500 men are accepted for traffic duty on their beats is to gain the con-
from the shops they wish to visit. favoured by Citroen and Peugeot. offices, and perhaps theatres. in our xrent cities.
Are these mere dreams Motorists themselves, and, parti policemen who have just complet-unil after they have experienced adence of the youngsters. Three has
heretofore been opposed Also we shall see in central posi- ed three-day courses in the traffic the strain patrols in the early dulcet peeps and an unmistakable strongly by Louis Renault, tions vast garages many storeys Already in the heart of London's cularly women motorists, diaplay
hand signal to an and street safety school of New hours.
high and capable of storing thou-theatreland there are many-floored animosity when they find that the offending founder and head of Renault's. The York city's police college.
In one typical Manhattan traffic motorist are shown to be more
Ford sands of care. Already we are garages open night and day for police issue summonses against. The success of the new pedestrian has an inherent right to precinct. bounded by Twentieth effective and less wearing than models and the Fordson and familiar with the idea of parking the cars of pleasure seekers, so them for leaving cars outside move when and where he pleases: and Thirty-eighth Streets and the loud blasts, Any general cran Chevrolet light trucks, which are our ears upstairs. We know they further developments may surely shops for periods which (seeming- expected. Owner-drivers ly, at least) may be only a few the operator of a vehicle only is two rivers, cleven traffic policemen ing of necks adds unnecessarily to being widely used in France, par can be driven up inclined planes be
They say, with much enjoying a privilege, the attentive were injured while on duty during the hazards of the road. officers have been told. The the four months just ended. While the police proceed on the ticularly by farmers, broke the or raised by elevators to the upper would appreciate the convenience minutes.
the numbers of cars in our great in. the buildings in which they warning regarding these regula walker's right harks back to time several enses taxicabs did the assumption that most infractions last individualistic resistance of floors, and it is evident that as of being able to garage their cars justice, that they are given no
the French manufacturers. immemorial, to those idyllic days damage. One incident involved 3 of the law are due to ignorance
The production of the Citroen, cities increase the only practical dined, danced, or were otherwise, tions, and that there are no direct- At present they ing signs to show where the. when naught but footsteps press-horse-drawn vehicle and a taxi rather than deliberate intent, the ed the fecund greensward, Long Another offender was the driver school has stressed also the need Peugeot and Renault works last solution of the difficulty of finding entertained.
I know one young woman firm year represented three-quarters of temporary parking places and must either employ chauffeurs nearest parking places are to be A trolley car for glicemen to be afterward came crass vehicles dig-of a pleasure car.
garaging accommodation is, by the when they wish to go out in the found. Of the ging into the terrain, but only by put one officer on the hospitalist ground.
the total French output, which is provision of buildings of many evening, or must undergo the dis- driver who told me, almost with twenty-four
about 300,000 motor cara and floors, and perhaps many similar hours in the traffic course, six-
base comfort of having to walk in dress tears in her eyes, that she had sufferance and for a, fec. There The rotarman tically the diatinetion continues: instance explained that he thought teen are devoted to expounding trucks a year.
ments," containing an enormous shoes from the garage to the place been fined, and that some 20 other. The alleged king of the rund, he could get
without E.P. 47, which is the little booklet
amount of floor space. In no of amusement. It may be, there-women motorists had been fined. however, is cautioned still to be trouble, but the crossing copper.¦ of traffic regulations to be had for
ROAD TRAFFIC BILL. other way can a great number of1fore, that the great haunts of on the same day, in a country conscious of the duty of exer-Jafi unaware, knew better when he the asking by citizens at any
cars be stored within a limited; pleasure seekers will some day town for leaving their cars outside cising due care for his safety" as was swing around with a smack. police station in the city.
A long debate took place in Con-area.
supply adequate accommodation slibps, though, until the
monses had been issued they had a new State law puts it.
The policemen have developed a, of the hours are spent in the class-mittee on the clause in the Road It is conceivable that the woman! for pleasure cars,
no knowledge of the local regula- The short-term students, all healthy respect for the cumber room; the other eight are spent Traffic Bill requiring the driver shopper of the near future may
Parking Difficulties.
tions. brought to the lecture roum some tralley,
on the streets, a practical labora-of a motor vehicle to carry and drive her car into a department. A manhale explosion pull tory. between traffic tours, have heard
produce on demand a cartificate store. An electric lift will whisk So far as the public parking] Discussion of Regulations. again the purpose of the Police another traffic man in the pre-ine!!
showing that the vehicle is in it from the ground to an upper places are concerned, we all admit} Department--to protect life and on the hospital report. A piece of The other subjects in the curri-sured. It was suggested that it floor or the roof, and it will re-that they are a great convenience,
Certainly. I think they had properly. The primary funstion steel dropping from an elevated culum dovetail into the discussion should be embodied in the carmaia there, while the purchases but there are irritating limits to cause to complain. In streets in
ergo, the train struck one of his comrades.; of protect life:
the time during which cars may which cars are not allowed to pedestrian nutst be protected. who refued to have his post. I accident prevention, for instance, igenze, but the Minister of Trans are being made.
No doubt these wonderfully be left in them and many of them stand for more than a few minutes Vehicles, being property, are of abduing an all-red crazy man of the officer is supposed to know held that that was
organized businesses would devise are much overcrowded during eer- there should be notices prominent- practicable. secondary importance.
the ridewalk, a crossing dardian that an overloaded vehicle may
a system by means of which pur-tain houra of the day. In many ly displayed, and these should But the danger of trying to returned to his post via the cause trouble. From his post he argue logically with a moving ambulance. The of the mounted can see a shift in merchandise in-see it though the next day in chases made in any part of the cases cars have to be parked as state the time limit, and should Here again his behaviour building would be conveyed to the closely together as possible, and, also indicate where the nearest machine is demonstrated by hos-traffic men got on the sensualty list visible to a truck driver, an unlit court.
not experts, official parking places ure to be pital records. New Yorkers are through being stepped upon by his rear lamp or other potential and necessary facts are treated in upstairs garage and placed in the as all drivers are
respective cars. The
In many districts the whole damage to coachwork and wings found. learning to develop a traffic sense own horse.
accident factor, Parking time the curriculum.
matter would be so simple and is by no means uncommon. Back police have a way of allowing Few Deallis, which the officers at erossings
mits also enter the discussions. Special lectures are devoted to convenient that customers would ing into the only vacant place in motorists to do much as they like must apply continually,
Comparatively few men on with some unofficial comment upon hacks, including taxicabs, and
not ask firms to deliver any but a long rank of cars has caused for some months. Then one day More Days Off Monthly. traffic duty in the city have been parkers expecting unlimited drivers. One puzzler the instruc- the larger goods, and this would many a driver more anxiety than it appears to be decided that
Last October an officer privileges throughout the year be-tor asks---What vehicle without relieve the roads of many small he has ever felt when making the regulations are Despite more days off during the killed.
be enforced month, the traffic policemen Inok was crushed between twn, fire! cause of a cigar bestowed with a wheels uses the streets?
delivery vans. Think of the con-final putt on the 18th green which strictly, and the result is a batch upon their brother patrol men with engines. During the same yearį flourish at the Yuletide.
horse is the answer, since the venience to the woman shopper will win or lose for him a club of summonses and resultant fines. beat somewhat enviously. The two motorcycle policemen were Another subject touched upon is regulations define a vehicle as In wet weather she would enter championship. The failure of a appears that the police consider feeling has been intensified since killed while racing after speeding the proper method of serving every conveyance used for the her closed car housed in a garage motorist to hole out at the first that a general "round up," which the latter were relieved of suying automobiles. This year the death summons, that "ticket" which the transportation of persons or mer-
which would be an integral part putt may be very expensive indeed, is reported in the Press, is more at the station as reserves after roll discloses two more motor-motorist dolefully contemplates.chandise, including a draught or of her residence and could be In many parts of London we are effective than a few isolated pro- hours of duty. Every third week cycle fatalities, in addition to a in many cases the patrolman uses riding animal, whether driven. entered without the owner having in need of more public parking ceedings, They may be right, the club-swingers get on a shift patrolman who was struck down psychology to impress his traffic ridden or led-except baby to place foot over the threshold, places, and the same thing may but, it is hard luck on those beginning at midnight, when the by a motor car early one morning. messages upon the offender. Aarriage.
She would drive to the great store be said of nearly all our cities and who are rounded up without warn- underworld is most artive. But The course in the traffic school; stern lecture may be followed by a The methods of automobile from a trafic post the possible has aimed to stimulate thought smile and; a wave of farewell. thieves are revealed by an expert and step out in the brightly light-towns, large and small, danger of a late tour seems not so about accident prevention and co- But once summons seems neces-in their detection. formidable to men side-stepping ordination of traffic factors, The sary, the policemen is all set to
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A car with
its motor humming in front of or near a jewellery store is supposed to stir an officer's suspicions immediately. Truck and mer- chandise thievery is analyzed: some thieves bring their own truck for the goods; some want only the truck; others are not content unless they can run off with the whole business.
The regulation of traffic by lights, and the mechanism of the lights, which are dotting the city more and more, also figure in the crowded curriculum of the truke
men.
Practical Support. Sceptics about theory have found instructors with long prac- tical experience to back their statements, from Deputy Chief Inspector John J. O'Connell, dean of the college, down. The traffic school is under the direction of Lieutenants James Harion, John C. Meyer and William Turk. The college was installed by 'Commis sioner Whalen in the Former candy factory across from Police Headquarters, on the lower east side.
With practically all the traffic men through their school, the staff is turning its pedagogical activi ties to those desirous of promotion and to men on beats who wish to get into the traffic end. The patrolmen, by the way, are not re- lieved from enforcing traffic re-. gulations, any more than the officers at crossings are relieved from heeding a call for help.
The items which the traffic men have to review hastily are being studied more exhaustively by the hundreds of young men taking the three-months recruit course in the college, under the direction of Lieutenant John Murray,
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In training recruits for trafic work, three essential qualities are stressed: firmness, courtesy and knowledge, "Good judgment" is prescribed in arriving ct decision; this achieved, the officer is directed to carry out with "absolute" firmness his conclusion as to a necessary signal or the treatment of an offender.
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Alertness is urged to prevent accidents and violations signals. Recruits are instructed to cultivate the good-will and respect of careful drivers by close attention to duty, consideration in, giving signals and by regulating. advising and assisting pedestrians. Some officers are able to co ordinate these ideals for brief periods; some have to retire periodically to near-by corners to determine whether they them- Belves are coming ΟΣ goine. Otherwise sweet dispositions sometimes crack under the endless assault of vehicles and pedestrians. Shorter periods of continuous duty have been sug gested to relieve the nervous ten-, sion of bluecoats at busy crossings.
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