Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-02-18 | Page 14 | New Traffic Law

NEW TRAFFIC LAW. Ogden Patrolmen Muct Explain Ordinance to Pedestrians and Drivers. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, Feb. 17. The difficult task of making a man who never before heard of a traffic ordinance understand that he must obey certain rules while driving along Washington avenue or any other of Ogden's thoroughfares with a load of hay Is the newest duty assigned to the police officers of this city. The new ordinance or-dinance went Into effect yesterday and under instructions from Chief of Police W. I. Norton the patrolmen on tho regular regu-lar beats have become traffic officers. Tho ordinance is possessed of all tho frills to be found in the most complicated compli-cated traffic law of any city. In addition addi-tion to regulating tho speed of all motor vehicles, the ordinance provides that certain cer-tain rules apply In turning from one street to another, that vehicles must be headed in a certain direction while stationary sta-tionary at curbs and numerous other specifications which arc hard to grasp on sight. ' , , The patrolmen have discovered that many residents of the city have already acquainted themselves with the provisions provis-ions or the new law and arc ma king a determined effort to be "regular," but It Is the driver from the country who Is making the life of the traffic officer n misorame existence. aiieiu is inu ! Improvement, however, In the general I traffic conditions even at. this early stage with prospects that n'll drivers will even-I even-I tually be brought to the realization that the new rules must be obeyed.