Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 26 | Paris May Get Traffic Laws

PARI MAl tET GH tETI I TRAFFIC lA LAWS W Has No Such Regulations at Present Daily Jam Inevitable c Result PARIS v. pAnis Dec 31 United Press Press Press- To tourists tourist the eighth wonder of 61 r the wo world ld h has always always- been Parts Pars street traffic Th The wonder is that it moves at all Since Since the a automobile displaced the horse the horse Paris has Ilas struggled along without a speed ordinance As a ar result r Paris l alIs chau chauffeurs te 1 especially especially- those at the steering wheels heels of taxIcabs taxicabs taxi- taxi cabs can make an automobile do anything on tw two wheels I In the he narrow streets of the oldest I part of the city it if h had d. d become become cus cus custom tom torn for drivers i in crowded passageways passageways passage passage- ways to drive up an on tho V clde sidewalk II to pass another car Other drivers could cross all Paris at Its widest point without changing gears and could dash dash through the heaviest traffic with little regard for cross traffic S There has lias resulted a a. daily dally traffic jam jam in the whole center of tho the city city- and anti now cars passing five blocks loCks down don the boulevards often otten spend twenty twenty- minutes As the number of or cars Is increasing by more than half halfa a million a a. year and l driving rJ is s be becoming becoming becoming be- be coming wilder truffle traffic ra ic experts pre predict diet dict that hat within a t. t year no car ar can ean move during th the the- rush-hour rush peak leak A minded far far member of the municipal municipal municipal mu mu- council has coma come forward with Paris Paris' first speed ordinance limiting tho the speed of oJ all types types- of Crr f cars to a maximum of or cl eighteen miles an n n hour anywhere any Inside the city city- limits He lie further would piako it a punishable for a t. t driver to drive anywhere where except at the extreme right of the in ill tile the I direction In ill which he is traveling I By curbing the tile speedsters sp ending ending end cud ing tho the weaving of or ire cars from side aide to side and putting traffic f into Inlo channels he hopes to do 10 for fOl Paris what the tire experts have havo done one for Fifth av avenue nue in New York To 10 put yut teeth into the law he h proposes proposes' a a- stiff sUrf fine for first offense ortenSe large fino for a second of offender offender of- of fender and the canceling of the drivers driver's license for u subsequent nt bursts of 0 speed or bad driving n