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TRAFFIC CHAOS IN PARIS..

QUICKER TO WALK.

THE NEW PARKING REGULATIONS.

The decision of the Trafi. Com- mittee of the Prefecture of Police

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1929.

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One-Way Streets a Failure.

The congestion in one-way streets

is as bad as in the others. A per- to forbid the parking of cars inson having gone about fifty yards certain parts of Paris from Janu in about afteen minutes in a 'bus ary 1 has excited a large number in the Rue St. Anns, a one-way of protests. The matter has been faken up by the Municipal Council lar for the Sanie Quarter, who proposes to ranice the question as the next session of the Council.

It is, of course, the ease that the

new regulations will make it im possible for anybody driving his own our to an office or place of

business in the centre of Paris to

go to it in his car. He would have to leave the car somewhere outside the prohibited zone, as is the ense in New York. The regulations will

street, got gut and walked, nad overtook four other busck, belong. ! ing to the same route, although they run at intervals of seven or eight minutes...

It is a common thing in the centre of Paris to see people get

ting cut of uses or taxi-cabs to

walk in the crowded hours, of the day, and walking is certainly new It must be said that the Paris the quickest means of progression.

policemen have not yet learned how so regulate the traffic, and that

not, of course, prevent private cars or taxicab from stopping any-their lack of skill in this respect where merely to set down a presen-is one of the cause of the ang ger, but they will make it impos- sible in many streets to leave ears outside while. "their owners дге shopping.

delays.

In any case, however,

there would inevitably be conges- tion, and although the new regula. tions about parking may relieve it

some extent, they will certainly "not be a complete remedy.

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lo spite, however, of the incor- venience that the regulations will cause to certain people, it is im possible to deny that they pre

The truth is that Paris was not necessary. If parking continues to built for the present enormous MASTERS OF ART. The allowed as at present in the amount of traffic. The streets are centre of Paris, it will soon be im. uearly all much too narrow in the

Engineering, at any rate of the possible to move about at all ex-quarters rebuilt or laid out under creative sort, is closely akin to an cept on foot: indeed, that is very the Second Empire, as a great part art: Many a modern locomotive is nearly the case already. A von-of the centre of Paris waL. Baron a thing of real beauty; so' is a rac- tinuous row of ears parked on each Haussmann. cannot be blamed for ing aeroplane; so, not infrequently, side of the whole length of the Rue rot having foreseen motor traffic, is a motor-car. The mind that con- de in Paix, is an everyday occur- į but he does not seem to have allow ceives auch things could quite easily ronce even in street! narrower ed for any increase in trafic at have expressed itself "differently: than the Rue de la Paix, with the all, although the growth of Paris in marble, or on canvas, or even rosult that there is only just room would have made an increase in- through music. for two vehicles tä pääs between | evitable even had motor-eam never"] These thoughts, writes" Focus," lines of parked cars. The streets been invented. Even the Grand in The Light Car and Cyclecar, in which parking is allowed only | Boulevards and the

on bng side are NO anrrow that Haussinann are much there is hardly enough room left ou† than, for instance, the road for two vehicles abreast. avenues of Berlin.

|

Boulevard were upperingst the other day when narrower I turned into a gallery off Cros- great venor Square to see an exhibition

of animal sculpture, the work of the late Rembrandt Buggatti. Te

the

THE TREND OF DESIGN.

It is curious how design seeins

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PEDESTRIANS AS ROAD KINGS.

MAGIC BUTTON THAT HOLDS UP TRAFFIC.

Manchester has come to the rescue of the pedestrian and... is trying out a system which will en- able him, by preasing a button, to cross the road in safety.

The system, in fact, gives the.

He can approach a crossing in a lordly way, press a button and watch signals caution" the traf- he stream and then command it to stop. Such a sense of power has Probably never been enjoyed hy man since Moses 'parted the waters of the Red Sea.

The humble non-motorist, how. ever is not allowed to stand in the middle of the read and gloat. He must seize his opportunity-and croes, for he is allowed only Alteen seconds to do it.

to travel in circles, "says The Com- | pedestrian such a chance to get Current Slotoë---Not-so- long ago

his own back on the motoriat as he manufacturers were finding that has never dreamed of even in bus

most angry moments. special chassis were needed for pas senger vehicles, chassis that were speedier, better sprung, low built and capable of affording the com fort which the modern coach and bas passenger has come to regaril as his by right. One the import ance of this factor in passenger chassis design came to be apprecint ed the development was rapid and it very quickly came to pass that every maker of note had two dis- tinct series of models of chassis, one for goods the other for passengers.

Now users of goods vehicles are beginning to ask for speed, capa. city and springing closely proximating to those which have hitherto only been deemed necessary for passenger conveyaner, and we are rapidly approaching a new phase in this changing development. of commercial vehicles-a phase in which the passenger-type chassis There is a magic button on each will come to be recognized ns more side of the road, and unless a suitable for goods conveyance than pedestrian has just pressed it the some current models designed solely traffic signal will show for that purpose. This trend has graciously allowing the motorist to undoubtedly been accelerated by the pass. widespread adoption of pneumatic imagines, have gone very far had tyres for the heavier types of

New. Studebaker touring cars chassis, but it was already on the he lived. The father of the Bugattisy when the so called Speed shipped to Tientsin. Chinn, for de- model one-ton and 30-cwt. chassis | livery to Kulgar, Mongolia, had to were introduced a few years ago, be driven over lofty Nankow Pass They were really the precursors of and through the ice packed Loa

their new ownera..

cushions, "Finger-Tip Control" and other aids to driv ing meeting her demand for ease and comfort in operation. The sample sized rumble seat is brought into chummy contact with the driver's seat by Inwer- ing the rear gins.

Moreover, he will not be allowed to strut backwards and forwards from one kerb to the other in an orgy of triumph, for once he has crossed no one else can cross for forty-five seconde,

Manchester has worked these times out to a second,

green.

was a brother, of course, of Ettore Bugatti, the famous light ear de signer, and died during the war was himself a painter, and the when he was only just over 30. All family is one of distinction in the his work was done in little more art world of Italy. Rembrandt than ten years, but very remark-chose to make beasts in bronze; able it was, and be would, one Ettore preferred machines in steel. the heavy goods vehicles of to- Lung Bei river in order to reach

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