3,500 TRAFFIC SIGNALS
New York s installing what is believed to be the greatest street travel ■ control system in the w r orld. ! Covering the metropolis like a spider ! web, the 3,500 “silent cops” will blink with the regularity of clockwork. The synchronised light plan will provide for the travelling of motor vehicles at the rate of 22 miles and hour without a stop. It is to do the work* of 5,000 policemen and will permit these traffic cops to join the war on crime. While the system will cost only 20,000 dollars to Install and about 8,000 dollars a year to operate, the saving to the city will be almost 14,000,000 dollars annually. In a report upon road accidents in Carmarthenshire during the past year the County Chief Constable roundly condemns pedestrian carelessness as being responsible for the majority of road mishaps in which motor-cars are concerned. Next to pedestrians motorcyclists are blamed for carelessness resulting in accidents.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 534, 11 December 1928, Page 9
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