Heavy Vehicles Forbidden in Central Paris During Certain Hours.
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A NEW police regulation with regard to heavy vehicles came into force in Paris on December 3rd. Under this regulation a number of streets in the heart of Paris is closed to heavy and slow traffic every afternoon between the hours el 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. The expression 'slow and heavy traffic" includes heavy horse-drawn vehicles. such as drays arid furniture vans, handcarts and lorries or other motor vehicles weighing 4,500 kilos. or over with their loads; also tractors pulling a trailer, and certain other types of vehicle.
In future the Paris policeman will have to gauge by eye the approximate weight of a lorry and its load, for there is an absence of weighbridges in the city. It might be thought that M. Morain, the new Prefect of Police, intends to plunge central Paris into an orgy of speed every afternoon, and those English visitors who have experienced the . pleasure (?) of a taxi ride in the French capital may consider that the Paris chauffeur needs no encouragement at all in this direction: Actually, however, the number of vehicles on the streets ha-aincreased so enormously during recent years that the traffic speed in can.tral Paris is reduced almost to that in London.