1927-04-16 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

CHICAGO'S TRAFFIC.

ROOM FOR MORE AUTOS.

LOOK TO THE LEFT.

New Rules Proposed.

Mr. John W. Prentiss, New Chicago, March 10th.-Radical York bankor, says that thore is changes in the administration of no such thing as an automobilo | Chicago's metropolitan area saturation point

Helping Walkers in One-Way Streets.

To make Wast End structs safor Ho balioves for walkers the Westminister City

traffic have been recommended there is no limitation in the auto-Council, which is responsible for in a roport of the Metropolitan motive field.. Stroot Traffic Survey by the atrect traffic committoo of the Chicago Association

morce.

of Com

ROAD SERVICE STATIONS.

100 miles of streets, is to increase its white line and "Please Cross Hore" safeguards.

The habit of looking to the right' before stepping off the pavement

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,

LEFT TYRE WEAR MOST.

Tyres on the loft wheels of's car woar faster than those of the right booauso the car is driven on the loft-hand side of the road. The loft whools support most of the car's weight and come in con- tact with ruts, dobris and tho camber of the highway.

han boconie ingrained in London-BUSES PAY HIGH TAX. ers as a result of the keep-to-tho- left traffic rulo. Now, with the uɅto- Tho California State

growth of the one-way traffic!

Motor buses in Oregon are pay- Association has 430

system, it is sometimos necessary mobile official stations throughout the to look all the time either to the ing nearly 10 per cent. of their for extending fro right or left, according to which gross rovanus in taxes, according stato emergency rond service to its

public service commission. menbore, rogardless of distance way you cross a one-way traffic to reports filed with the stato

Millor McClintock, traffic au. thority who directed the survey, has 'recommended extensive prof hibition of vehicular parking, re- striction of the pudestrians'. free dom in the use of streets and cor rolation of the existing 18 traffic jurisdictions within the city.

An ordinance has been proposed that would require pedestrians,] from the neurost station. whon crossing tho stroots.ovon at cross walks, to yield the right-of-) way to vohicles. The ordinance provides that "the pedestrian shall indicate his intention to cross by a timely and continuous warning by holding up his hand palm outward toward "approach- ing traffic. "

PREDICT CHEAPER

ROADS,

stroot.

"Look Left."

Where one-way streets join main streets, such as the junction of Duncannon-street and Trafal- gar-square, notices will be written on the roadway bearing the "Look Mass production may reduce warnings "Look Left," expenditures in the construction Right." Similar noticos are to be The outstanding parking and of roads, predicts" A. J. Brosseau, placed at the north end of Hay- stopping restriction prohibits the director of the National Auto-market, as the south end of Lowor parking of vehicles in the central mobile Chamber of Commerce.

district between 7 a. m. und 6.30)

p: m. upon any day oxcopt Sun-

Regent-street, and at the junc- tions of Albamarlo-street and Dover-stroot with Piccadilly.

The "Cross Horo" notices in

days and certain holidays. This NAME AUTO NEEDS. Parliament-stroot have served a

does not apply to licensed tuxi

cabs in authorized stands.

useful purpose, and similar no- tices are not only to bo orected The question of vehiclos pase- English motorists, naming de-at other places but also illumin- ing down the street car trucks sired auto improvements in alated at night.

White lines are to be drawn bo- within safety zones is handled by plebiscite of The Motor, London, making it unlawful for the showed a proference for "much hind nearly all the road refuges operator of any vehicle to drive easier lubrication, oasy starting in Westminstor, and traffic will to the left of any safely zone loss frequent gour changing, re-he required to halt on those lines, when by doing so such operator duced gasolino consumption, and thus affording a free passage für would unnecessarily delay the trouble-free brakes." stopping of a street car for the

purpose of receiving or discharg

ing patsongers at said safety ILLINOIS PAVES ROADS.

ZOTC.

The Ford Motor Co. of Canada! Lt, operates the largest auto mobile factory in the British Empire.

Illinois now has 5966 miles of completed hard roads in the state In addition, highway system. there are 1947 miles of graded roads that will be paved by next

year.

A MOTOR CYCLE?

pedestrians.

Wider Turnings.

At Piccadilly cireus; when the new Underground station is com- pleted, there will be no fower than seven subway entrantes. A now traffic scheine will be inauguratod which may do away with, the and Lower Regent-street as one- necessity of using the Haymarkou

way streats,

Vauxhall Bridge-road, at its junction with Victoria-struet, is to be widened und a subway for podestrians provided.

At Marble Arch now refuges are to be provided and the island oast of Marble Arch is to be shavod, giving a wider opening

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At Hyde Park Corner Che Artillery Memorial island sito is to be shaved, giving more room for trafic.

STANDARDISED EXCUSES.

Magistrate's Humour.

A great service has been ren- dered to the unimaginative by a Sacramento magistrate, Mr. Frank L. Gafney, who, after wodrily listening for many a long year to the explanations of Cali fornians-suminoned for exceeding the speed limit, has issued to the pross a list of the Twelve Stand-i ard Excuses for Motorists Who Feel That They Had Bottor Say Something,

1. I have no speedometer on my

cat.

2. I stayed at the office longer than I had expected, and I was hurrying home to din

nor.

3. I was hurrying to the dentist

[doctor, occulist, chiroprac tor, osteopath, chiropodisti clairvoyant, etc.)

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4. I was late for church (work, luncheon, engagement, chair practice, business conforence, tiddleywinks tournament, etc-1

5. I saw the motor-cycle police- 'roan coming and was wait- ing when he reached me. so how could I have beon speeding?

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6. My girl was necking with another fellow in the back sgat of his car, and it made me mad.

7. I had a wife (baby, husband, mother, father, brother, sistor, etc.) ill at bome.

8. I was following another car -why wasn't that driver arrested?

9. I had just changed from B

four to a. six and didn'ti realise how much "pick- up" it had.

10. I was trying to reach the dairy before it closed to get a bottle of milk for the baby.. 11. I was trying to catch a train, 12. This policoman has a grudge

against mo.

It would add to variety of life in our courts of first instance if noveral of those excuses could be ploaded at once, in the manner of Alternative defences to

a libot action. Numbers 2, 6, and 10, for instance, would make a pleasant combination.

ETHEL

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REQ.. PAT OFF.

Curves that ondanger mo- torists are not always in tho road.

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