Only Short, Sharp Signals May Be Given The Shanghai Municipal Coun last Wednesday adopted recommendations by the Trafle Commitice to amend the Trac Regulations vide that no motor ear shall carry ore than two horns, that multiple tone horns be strictly prohibited, that only short, sharp signals shall be given, and that except. in an emergency the use of any horn en a. stationary vehicle be strictly pro hibited, The Traffic Committee devoted considerable time to study of a comprehensive report by the Acting, Commissioner of Police giving details of investigations conducted by his Department and the Public Works Department in the mechanical problems involved in the question of noises amitied by motor horns. "As, a result the Acting Commissioner rec-commended the following additions the Trame Regulations as the most efficacious method of abating the motor horn nuisance!
(1) "No car shall carry more than two horas, only one of which shall be electric." A''seeond hora. when erred shall be a bulb horn." (2) "Ail multiple tone herns are striet~
(a-When using: any horn only short sharp signals may be used of not more than half second duration. "Except in emergency (to warn a moving vehicle) "the ure of any horn by the Person in charge of 2 stationary "vehicle is strictly 10rn_ shall be used and 7 a.m, No flectrie horn may be used tween June 15 and September 15 any yea Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 for adoption at 'Rot more than two weeks' notice. Num= ber Sat two months' notice to allow {ime for the possibility that the demand for bulb horns. will exceed the local supply.
The proposal for compulsory use of bulb horns was opposed in Committee on the ground that accepted Dractice regarded bulb horns" obsolete, that they are not part of the standard equipment of cars, and that owing to the necessity of out-attachment there is the liability of theft, In this connection reference way made to the admission in the Police Report that any type of horn could be objectionable in use, and it {s abuse of the horn that is responsible for nulsanes Tt having been stated that two electric horns formed the standard equipment on many cars, the sug~ gestion was advanced that the connected operation of the two horns: should be prohibited: that two electric horns should be permitted provided each operated independently. It was, however, pointed out that in all American cars the two horns are connected, It was considered that the defini-on of the time to be occupied by single blast (proposal 3) was unnecessary. Members of the Committee expressed themselves as adverse, to the compulsory use of bulb horns. The Committee ultimately recommended that the Trafic Regulations provide that:—
(1) No car shall carry more than two horns, (2) Ail muatipte tone horns are strictly prohibited, When using horn by the person in charge stationary vehicle is strictly hibited.
The Council approved these Regulations, but intimated that if after trial they prove ineffective then the matter will be reviewed.
One-Way Trame The Acting Commissioner of Police also submitted a report recommend-jing, in the interests of the traffic flow, the discontinuance from October 1 of the one-way traffic system in Kiangse Road between Peking and Soochow Roads and the prohiblof parking or ranking in this section of roadway.
'A member of the Committee considered it regrettable that one-way traffic systems in Shanghai should be Secreased, by however small an extent, since he believed that in Principle the one-way system was essential to a comprehensive trafic scheme.
Traffic conditions in the road concerned having been outlined, members agreed as to the advantages, which the Police proposal offered and recommended the Council to abandon the one-way trafic regulation affecting Kiangse Road between Peking and Soochow Roads as from October 1, and to prohibit parking and ranking in this section of roa way from that date.
The Council accepted this recommendation.
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