PARIS PEDESTRIANS.
The life of a pedestrian in Paris is an unhappy one, for statistics just compiled show that close on half a million vehicles of ail kinds can hit one at any moment. Dodging this mass of traffic has long been given up by the unfortunate pedestrians, who now seek refuge in subway kiosks or behind mounted police. There are 80,000 automobiles in the streets of Paris, the New York Herald reminds us; 1000 cumbersome autobuses, 1200 street cars, 400,000 bicycles, conered the worst pest of all; 19,000 motor cycles, and 30,000 horse drawn vehicles. To the danger of meeting any of this maze of transport is added the difficulty of judging the speed of motors, rendered double because there is practically no speed limit, speed being taken into consideration only in case of accidents, which, however, are very frequent.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15908, 21 August 1923, Page 4
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141PARIS PEDESTRIANS. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15908, 21 August 1923, Page 4
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