TRAFFIC CONTROL

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 87, 9 October 1937, Page 28

TRAFFIC CONTROL

PRAISE OF CHICAGO VISITOR'S IMPRESSIONS Praising traffic regulation a recent visitor says of Chicago that it boasts broad highways and a nearly perfect highway system that other cities might do well to copy. On its main thoroughfares during rush hours traffic at its heaviest is allowed to take a third lane and the few machines moving in the opposite direction are restricted to but one lane. This keeps the flow of cars moving in a steady and fast stream, relieving all congestion. Motorists living some 20 to 30 miles to the north of the city, and doing business in the city, fiod. it an easy matter to cover the distance within 30 to 35 minutes in perfect safety. In order to keep down casualties the judiciary is bending every energy to aid the traffic enforcement body in carrying out the provisions of the law to the- letter. Fines are no longer being imposed. The Judges feel that the fiouters of the law readily pay the amount assessed and in a few days are up again for the same infractions. Instead of being fined drivers are being suspended* from five 'days to a year, gaol sentences are being imposed on wilful traffic offenders, and in many cases where drivers have appeared too often they have been sent to the city psychiatrists, a careful brain study has been made, and in many instances driving permits have been permanently revoked. He praises the traffic officers for not worrying about parking times and the offence of exceeding these limits. He says that instead they devote them-selves-to the "traffic signal cheater and the reckless and careless driver, whom they regard as murderers and .as dangerous as the most hardened criminal and . gangster." takes off his hat to Chicaso.