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Show TRAFFIC CONDITIONS SERIOUS IN CITIES Traffic conditions in tho larger cities of tho United States are becoming so serious that tho authorities have turned their attention to the problems that now confront them. First and foremost of theso probloma Is tho - ono that has to do with tho parking of motor cars in tho business districts, an especially serious problem In cities like Chicago. Now York, Detroit, Boston, Milwaukee and Indianapolis, whero tho demando of traffic traf-fic on tho downtown streets havo become abnormal. Much of this trafflo congestion conges-tion is caused by tho leaving of motor vehicles standing at tho curb all day, thus shutting off vehicular trado of tho business houses transient motorists, one might say tho citizens who do their shopping In motor cars and who aro entitled en-titled to tho use of tho curb, hut who i rannot get to tho stdewalks bocauso of ho encroachments of thoso who drlvo to business and use the city streets for ttarago purposos. |