Report and Recommendations of the Metropolitan Street Traffic Survey

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Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry. Street Traffic Committee
Chicago Association of Commerce, 1926 - 292 páginas

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Página 218 - Vehicle". Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (b) "Motor Vehicle".
Página 230 - No person shall stop, stand, or park a vehicle, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic...
Página 226 - ... or drive into or park such vehicle within the block where fire apparatus has stopped in answer to a fire alarm.
Página 106 - No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or the safety of any property...
Página 107 - Local authorities in their respective jurisdictions are hereby authorized in their discretion to increase the speed which shall be prima facie lawful upon through highways at the entrances to which vehicles are by ordinance of such local authorities required to stop before entering or crossing such through highways.
Página 221 - Business District no pedestrian shall cross a roadway other than by a route at right angles to the curb, and when crossing at any place other than a crosswalk shall yield the right of way to all vehicles upon the roadway.
Página 225 - It shall be unlawful for the driver of any vehicle other than one on official business to follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm...
Página 217 - ... moved by steam. Authorized Emergency Vehicle. Vehicles of the Fire Department, (Fire Patrol), police vehicles and such ambulances and emergency vehicles of municipal departments or public service corporations as are designated or authorized by the (Chief of Police). Pedestrian. Any person afoot. Operator. Any person who is in actual physical control of a vehicle.
Página 218 - No provision of this act for which signs are required shall be enforced against an alleged violator if at the time and place of the alleged violation an official sign is not in proper position and sufficiently legible to be seen by an ordinarily observant person.
Página 107 - District" means the territory contiguous to a highway not comprising a business district when the frontage on such highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet or more is mainly occupied by dwellings or by dwellings and buildings in use for business.

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