Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-10 | Page 4 | 'Dumb' Drivers Held Cause of Troubles

Dumb Drivers Held Cause of or Troubles Editor of The Telegram Now that orders have been issued to the traffic of officers ers to issue tickets to pedestrians for jaywalking and The Telegram has shown show us u pictures of the mad rush of at the dumb pedestrians pedestrians trIns why not tell tel the other half haI of the story Is it i not possible that hat the pedestrians pedestrIan have d d their habit of disregarding tra traffic c laws Jaws becauSe because be be- cause of a similar disregard by the equally if i not more dumb dub drivers and failure of the traffic taic officers to enforce the law When first coming to t your city one o a at my first acts act was wa to get a book bok of your traffic laws and read it Consequently Con Con- when the light turned green greenI I waited until pedestrians who teen had started across the thc intersection on the green light were to m my right Found it necessary to signal m most st of them to go ao through however Fin Finally al in the left lane of two a-two- car downtown intersection a traffic officer on the corner corer to rd my right had signaled sigale a woman woma pushing a baby carriage to go through as an she had stopped just jut to my left when the thc whistle blew she started through and the baby carriage was abreast of my right front f fender when the light turned turne green The car to my right rIght and a dozen more more behind him started moving forward marooning her in front of my car She decided to back backup backup backup up and due to the tooting of the horns horn on the cars behind me I went vent through Did the officer blow his h whistle and have the offenders on my right pull pul over to the curb and ad give them thema themi a i ticket as would woud have been done in California Sure he did just like lie about 90 gO per cent of at the local drivers stop at stop signs get in the correct lane when making a turn and yield the right of way to a car in the Intersection intersection tion lon signaling a left turn I C C. c