PEDESTRIAN CONTROL
VETO BY NEW .YORK'S'MAYOR
■ An' attempt by, the :city.'of New York to control pedestrian "traffic-.has failed,; and • th'evMaybri. Mr;-!L;a" , Guar'dia, has vetoed the.; measure-.;that ■.w.as.. to. impose;;; control.'. ;: Herisv, quoted' as; saying that, the.:people..''rnay/prefer,,' the happiness : of ~ouri- unorganised: imperfection to.;. the >glqora> of Organised:; perfection."'■'■■•■■" '■' *? ;.' .-:-";.'- V; , ■-. ;:-
Previous : .attempts "to., control the pedestrian^ in ,■ New-';York-,have also failed, and the .police,'an, practice, have always found . themselves helpless— indeed, pushed aside. , ' ■ .. The statistical~-position.Tis.set out by a motor, writer, who'says that of 29,816 pedestrians killed', and"; injured in ' the State from .January i to/October- last year nearly-half were ■ struck while crossing thoroughfares against traffic lights, diagonally or between intersections. '■ ■' " ' ....'...■'
He. insists, however, ,on the still enormous total of deaths and injuries that are due to carelessness and recklessness on the part of■ motor vehicledrivers and points out'that 54 people were injured on safety islands and 994 men at work on roadways. ■ All the same, half the pedestrians killed and-'injured are "victims o? their own independence in traffic." ' '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 28
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166PEDESTRIAN CONTROL Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 28
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