NOVEL DEVICE TO REGULATE TRAFFIC.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3246, 16 June 1911, Page 4

NOVEL DEVICE TO REGULATE TRAFFIC.

RAILWAY SYSTEM APPLIED TO STREET TRAVEL. The regulating of the traffic of the Paris streets has long been a problem with the municipal authorities. A new system is about to be tested, and if it succeeds its employment will become general, and cause the disappearance of the policemen with the white batons, who now become prematurely old in the heroic task of evolving order out of [•liaos at street crossings. An iron structure with semaphore limns has been erected in the centre of the so.uare at the Montmartre, where the traffic is very heavy at all hours p>f the day. A single policeman plan --d nr charge of this semaphore will control all the traffic converging on the square. The apparatus is fitted with four, signal arms, and these can hr seen at a considerable distance. Dvrers of vehicles arriving at any !)« ;.[ the four arteries opening on the square will halt if the signal; is against tin. in, and wait for a white disc to lie shewn before proceeding. At night red and green lights will replace the red and white discs of daytime.