PARIS TRAFFIC REFORM.
REDUCING THE CONGESTION. Traffic reform in Paris is now being taken energetically in hand by the new Prefect of Police, M. Morain, and a long list of fresh regulations is to bo applied almost immediately. It has been decided that horsed traffic, heavy motor-lorries, and handcarts shall ba prohibited from using the streets in the centre of the city between three o’clock in the afternoon and seven in tho evening. No vehicles are to be allowed to stand fox more than four minutes (as a commencement) in certain important thoroughfares, including the Grands Boulevards. Tho Place do la Concorde and the Place Yen dome are to be used for parking waiting cars. One of tho most interesting proposals still under consideration is for the construction of a bridge for vehicular traffic across the dips in the Grands Boulevards at the place where the Rue Montmartre and the Foubourg Montmartre ran into them. This bridge, it is proposed, shall carry east and west vehicular traffic, while north and south traffic will pass underneath, thereby avoiding any need for stopping of the four lines of vehicles at a point where traffic is particularly dense.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19375, 10 January 1925, Page 7
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195PARIS TRAFFIC REFORM. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19375, 10 January 1925, Page 7
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