Show LIMITS Of SPEED 1 i f SET t City Commissioners Again Hold Long Conference on Proposed Traffic Traffic Y fie fic Law The sp speed ed at which automobiles and Vehicles may travel on the streets of ot Salt lake occupied the greater part o or the time tUne to the Informal session of or the city commission this morning When hen the commission adjourned tho the members had haft practically agreed that automobiles would woul b be limited to a maximum speed of twenty miles mUes an hour anywhere In the tho city limits when the new traffic ordinance Is passed The maximum speed of or twenty mIles mUes at an a hour will be allowed only onty In the territory territory ter ter- excluded from the congested and business districts At street intersections automobiles will m be limited to a maximum speed of or ten miles an nn hour houn The territory to o be designated as congested district vill 11 be subject s to a speed peed of ot not to ox- ox teed iced ed fifteen miles an hour Uces Ices Objections While this speed was vas satisfactory to all members of ot the tho commission Commissioner Commissioner Commis Commis- Wells VeIls expressed the tho belief bellet that the automobile owners would not be satisfied with that limitation lie said that he had been told b by prominent attorneys that ordinances fixing the speed limit lt at safe and reasonable had hall been found to be bemo mo most t satisfactory a In other cities clUe The Tho other commissioners however howe were of or the tho opinion that there would be bo conflicts con con- filets its KS to what was satt safe sare and reasonable reasonable reasonable reason reason- able It was van as asserted that some somo automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile owners would insist that thirty five tithes miles an hour was safe sare and reasonable under certain conditions For this reason son it was ho mo 10 general l opinion that a definite limit should bo ho fixed E Extreme penalties are proposed for the tho enforcement J of or the time provisions of or the tho proposed pro pro- posed traffic ordinances For the tho first violation of or the ordinance the offender Is subject to a fine One of or not less than 10 or more than 25 5 or Imprisonment for fOl or nut not more than thirty days a s For the fH second see sec C- C ond offense within ono one year the penalty proposed Is b a line fine of oC not less lesH than 50 01 or more than Jino noo or Imprisonment for fer Cr not l ls s than thirty days daY or more than days For the third and nd subsequent violations lions the offender under the time proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed ordinance is subject to a fine fine- of ot not le less leks s than nor more than or Imprisonment for Cor not less than fifty days daS nor nol more than s six lx ix months Pines Graduated In Tn this connection It is proposed to embody em- em body another clause clauRe to secure the en enforcement en- en for ement of or the thc new ordinance Under this provision the fines will wilt be graduated according to the violation o of or the speed limit For Instance it is Is' Is proposed that thata a man convicted of ot driving thirty miles an hour or ten miles ml's more than the tho speed limit allows shall be subject to the Jail sentence i and not allowed to pa pay a tine line For Foi- violations where the offense Is not noto so fO o pronounced It is proposed to make the penalty a 1 combination of ot a Jail s sentence and a line fine The provisions of or the ordinance as ag applyIng applying ap P ap- ap plying to the speeding of ot automobiles Is Ig directed toward any person riding driving lug ing or 01 propelling or causing miln or permit permit- tin tins tins' an n automobile to be driven In violation violation viola vlola- tion Uon of ot the ordinances That the provisions of or the new ordinance ordinance nance ma may be brou brought ht to the tho attention of ot everyone subject to the or ordinance it itIs Itis Is proposed to have the ordinance printed In ill pamphlet form It has been suggested that traffic officers at Intersections bo lie provided pro with a supply of or these pamphlets for or distribution to motorists Efforts will nl also o o be made to have the new ordinance completed and adopted In time to have itI it included In the new manual of oC the time police department according to an nn announcement announce announce- ment made mado by Mayor Maor Samuel C. C Park I Right Bight of Way Law Under the heading of or rl rights of or way the proposed ordinance gives the time rI right ht or ora of AN a vay ay to vehicles north and arid south southover southover over those traveling e east cast t t bond and west weaL Fire apparatus police automobiles and ambulances ambulances 1 lances In actual service are given hen the I right of ot way vay over o all other vehicles with tho the exception or of United States mall real wagons I The only new mica feature to the thc latter Utter provision provision pro pro- vision Islon i is h. the addition of ambulances I which is hs in iii line with ordinances in III crt ef effect cr- cr t feet in forty of ot the leading cities of or time tile United The proposed ordinance also makes It unlawful to conduct or speed contests cun- cun tests within the congested districts district and not in tho limo outlying districts where the test teat or contest conflicts lh wili the provision provi- provi t-lons t of ot the lie The Time commissioners commission commission- ers era arc oro In n R Dlo to prohibit prohibit pro pro- hibit drivers of or nubile cir cars from froni doing repair work worl on their cars In the tho streets during the time nl night flIght ht At this mornings morning's meeting some time was Ils given ghen to th the discussion of ot the proposed pro- pro po posed Cd provision pro rl regulating time the parking of ot cars ar As the ordinance stands the tho piu- piu vision blon limiting the time time limo at which cars may stand In one place ilace to one hour is conlin cd tn tim laIu r AH H a result of this tills mornings morning's discussion It II is likely that this will lw he mad to apply to all that territory ell West Vest Temple Templo le and anI Stale Stab street and nd Fourth South and North Tern Tern- tIle Pie It 15 Is alM alao possible that lint t the time limit will be lie shortened morn one hour to thirty minute The effect of 11 this pro pro- will be be- tho r tal t of parkIn parking park park- J ing In places in limo tho c center or these thene blocks I Four private Individuals have haye already told the commission that they would provide these arrangements In tho the event that the ordinance is passed I Licenses Probable The commissioners are arc also Iso considering the advisability of establishing an nn ex examination ex- ex bureau for the tho licensing of drivers of cars carl Tho The regulations of other cities clUes arc are being considered In this connection con con- and it Is likely that a provision combining the best features will wilt be bo In Included included In- In eluded in tho the new ordinance St. St Louis requires that applicants give a a. demonstration demonstration demon demon- stratton drive of miles mUes and pass pas an examination relating to the time operation o oa of ofa a car When Wilen an applicant passes tho the examination and test drive his photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph is taken and this Is attached to tolila lil lila alA license which he is 16 required to car carry whenever he la Is driving a car cor The photograph on the license prevents drivers driveN from loaning their license to Unlicensed unlicensed un un- licensed ed drivers With the considers consideration tion of or the various arlous provisions prO completed the city commission commission commission commis commis- sion will redraft the ordinance to Include all the features which nUl may be adopted here From this the commission will decide decide de de- de- de cide chic on what Is to be submitted to the theo o official rrt cia I bod body following a close checking with the state laws Jaws Inasmuch as man many citizens are interested in the proposed ordinance it has been su suggested gei ted that the commission designate one night for resIdents residents resi rest dents to make protests or suggestions bearing on the tho new ordinance |