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...time to time the city has pigeon-holed construction of larger traffic signals on each of the streets converging on the Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while...
...number of automobiles in use this spring makes the harried pedestrian look to the city for help. Otherwise a mission to McBrides or the Coop will take on all the sport of playing touch-tag with a tank formation...
...intelligence in Germany, wrote for the New York Times Magazine a remarkable analysis of how Germans rationalize their plight: "It has been said by someone that the German 'little man' has a suppressed desire to be killed some day by a hit-run driver on a pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order him to go?) and his suppressed love for the tragic, his eternal longing for Valhalla, would be satisfied too (for did he not die a martyr...
Bingo. In Los Angeles, Policemen B. G. Smith and A. J. Wycoff were not un pleasantly surprised when a motorist who had just hit a pedestrian turned out to be their old top sergeant...
Reform. In Winnipeg, Canada, a coroner's jury, investigating the traffic death of a pedestrian shouldering a case of beer, recommended that beer cases should have handles...