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SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929,

REGULATING TRAFFIC IN PARIS.

The City of Taxi-Cabs in Difficulties.

DANGEROUS HOURS IN CENTRAL DISTRICT.

From the point of view of traffic, masquerade of linked tramears and no two great cities are alike; each he would have a falut idea of the has its special individuality, and Place de la Republique or the therefore ench has its own traffic Place de la Bastille in the crowded problem. At the one pole is Man-hours of the day. Nor again can hattan Island wherein New York, it be understood why these cum- enclosed between the East River borsomo motor-buses and tram- and the Hudson, has been forced cars run so few and far between. to sprout upwards into skyscrap: They create a maximum of block- ers. At the other pole is. Tokyo, ado when they do run, but provide. which, with less than half the no corresponding or compensating population of London, spreads service. Had Paris anything like with a little dwellings over an the London motor bus service, or area greater than that of aur the Manchester tram-cara fo other city in the world. There would be much easier. But, why are, roughly speaking, great cities it should be so is a mystery that that sprawl, others that are only tradition, prejudice, and the bounded and shut in. To each singularity of Paris as the only category the population test great human agglomeration in applies differently. To the one France-in other words, the lack Bort a lateral measuremont only of experience, can explain. suffices; to the other there is as with New York, a vertical element to be considered.

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Too Many Taxis.

The result is au onormous super- Even more than New York, Parts (says the correspondent in the nuity of taxis. In Paris a taxi costa only fourpence a mile. There Guardian,) 18 an Manchester

is no extra charge for extra pás- island city. What has made it an island are its ring of sengers, so that for three or four fortifications created in the fortice people they are even cheaper than of the last century, They encircle the buses. And then in a virtual- it like a medieval wall and mout,ly walled city there are such short distances to go. No wonder that traversable only at the

Paris has more--let it be said in rates, and at these "ates strangichold is made all the more justice better-taxicabs than pro- intense by the absurd octrol bably London and all the other system. Paris, in a word, is still cities of the United Kindom com- n walled city, and within its walls bined. No wonder, too-thanks dwell nearly three million people, not only to the taxis but the in- and, what is most to the point, numerable private cars in a land virtually the whole of the motoring where the petrol and motor-car tax class. Such a congestion, both of is so low,that the traffic problem human beings and of vehicles, is of Paris is beginning to appear in- soluable. Nor is the comic press not to be found elsewhere.

guilty of excessive satire where It

Sticking to the City.

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the day it would save time and Paris has, to be sure, its sub-money both for taxi-driver and urbs. But the less said of them client if the one could attach a the better. It would be hard to taximetre to the log of the other, and a parallel to the inner "zone," accompany him on foot to his

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with its misery and filth. outer industrial zone is more tolerable. These "suburbs" have nothing in common with the outer dormitories of London. No one who valued his skin, much more his health or his comfort, would dream of venturing therein. The wealthy and the middle class of Paris keep prudently within Parle proper and keep their cars within

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M. Chlappe, Traffle Dictator,

A few more details to complete the picture. Like London, Paris is cut across by a river, bat, unlike London, the south side here, "La Rive Gauche," is as important and as busy as the north, Imagine the City and theatreland north of the Comparing London and Paris as Thames, and Buckingham Palace, a whole the vertical test, the Whitehall, the House of Commons, French capital would come out on Mayfair, and Bloomsbury to the the average some three or four south of the Thames. Then nut storeys higher, a fact which ac between the two the barrier, nearly counts for the barrack-like regua mile long, of the Louvre and Tuil- larity of all the streets alike, and cries Gardens, Add the many cen- renders Paris, outside one or two turies-old, exquisite, and narrow main avenues, so extremely ugly as bridges like the Pont-Neuf and the

a city. To give full force to this Pont-Royal architectural glories

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London.

The dictator of Paris traffic is M. Chiappe, Prefect of Police, the most energetic, Innovating, and miracle-working, Corsican since The Hours of Encumbrance.

Napoleon (incidentally, with some At lunch time and at nightfall of his faults). Five years ago the this virtually congested population trafic control there was

almost pours into the streets simul comically chaotle, the joy of every taneously. These are, what in English visitor; to-day it is equal, Paris are called "the hours of on if not superior, to that of London cumbrance," an exact phrase. At these hours the city traffic is or even of New York. No capitai city can boast of such splendidly. brought pretty well to a complete efficient "pointamen;" few of so block. Between' mid-day and well-drilled a motor world, even and between 6pm. and though it be somewhat excessively 7 pan, no one who was not an in-at the expense of the pedestring. valid would dream of traversing

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central Paris in a motor-car or No other capital possesses no fine taxi. More and more during these or so large a feel of taxis or such

and skilful too skilful hours taxi-drivers in the outskirts

daring-taxi-drivers.. are refusing to take clients into

A few years hence, perhaps a the centre, Still less would one, unless one were compelled, think of few months even, it may become Luking the "Metro" (ie. the un- necessary at the hours of maxi- derground) or the 'buses.

mum "congestion" to thin down queues at, for example, the Opera traffic in the centre of the city; to "Metro" station are interminable, weed out unnecessary vehicles, to and anyone who had to waft less invent a system of "passes," to than an hour for place on a 'bus impose what in New York is called one might judge himself lucky.

metaphorleally a "curfew." Bui The government of the city is the "curfew" will not be, as in New partly to blame. Why it should York, between 7 p.m. and midnight, object to the compact double-deck but between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., for bus of the London type and prefer the Parisian is a homegolne, early. the long, unwieldy, caterpillar-like to-bed creature. A further relief single-decker, often six-wheeled, will inevitably be found in double- so that in making the slightest deck buses of the London type, whole and their multiplication at least thoroughfare, is beyond imagining. soven or eight fold, which would Nor why it prefers single-decked mean a corresponding reduction in trams that linked together in two the number of taxis now altogether romantic. Берва- or three long cars constitute rather excessive. A railway trains than trams and hold tional press talks of "upatreets up traffe in their deliberate pag- and downstreets" of traffic at dif- sage for two or three minutes at aferent leveis. But this would time. Let & Manchester, man mean the rebuilding of Paris from bottom. It would be imagine the Chorlton-Didsbury top to

crawling across Albert cheaper to destroy the city and re Square or a Londoner the, local erect it on another site. Buch trains of Charing Cross meadering Utopias are not worth serious con- across Trafalgar Square in the sideration.

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