Show FRANK K BAKER BAKER- In its efforts to minimize the city's tr traffic hazards the tr traffic department of the city police will be smart to est establish blish a slow stow zone on Seventh E East st and Thirteenth South streets streets where they border the m municipal baseball diamonds The Thc need is especially great on Seventh East street which serves as an arterial highway to considerable automobile traffic in addition to fo street car travel to thc the southern southern part city Games on the two municipal diamonds occasionally draw as as people Thc They line both sides of the streets with their cars and flock into the streets particularly at the lon on of the games I Slow alert driving is absolutely necessary to avoid striking these pedestrians after games gaines Children and adults alike step from behind the parked cars car into the lanes for moving traffic In the excitement following the games these pedestrians inns are arc not as alert themselves to the dangers as they would be if crossing a downtown street Motorists must therefore be made doubly cautious Perhaps the traffic department could solve the problem problem lem by requiring motorists to slow down past the diamonds diamonds dia dia- monds at game time as as they dp do past schools V Y arning signals placed in the middle of the street could be re removed rc- rc moved after the g game me congestion was gone gone and traffic could then resume its norm normal l flow Without these warning signals many well meaning motorists drive into this congested zone before they realize it and are still moving faster than they know is wise when they go past the diamonds Reminding signals would be sufficient for these drivers as aswell aswell aswell well as strangers who may use the street and dont don't know the thc congestion they are approaching Presence of uniformed officers at least for periodical checks check's would help keep the heedless driver in line The need for carefully U traffic is as great at the municipal diamonds as it is after any football game in front of schools or at any downtown town intersection and it will vill be so much finer to make provision now as a preventive rather than wait until some untimely accident impresses us with such ne ne- ne ty Ii It would not be fair to force the whole burden upon the individual behind the wheel nor would it be wise simply to create a slow zone into which pedestrians felt thc they could walk practically as thc they pleased Those at nt the games must be impressed with their share in the responsibility too and per perhaps aps the designation of two or three well defined cross crosswalks crosswalks crosswalks walks erection of a few warning signs and the presence of officers would help i in this bit of education If not possible to st station tion officers there now v the tr traffic dep department might be able to enlist the assistance of f the tle ever eager Boy Scouts during the twilight and Sunday morning game hours 1 i v |