EVENING SPIDERS

ON FOOT

There are two remedies for the crisis affecting traffic. The first, which I have already had the honor of explaining to you, would be to let things go. In a few months, the combined surface area of ​​vehicles will have become greater than the total surface area of ​​the streets, and this will result in a permanent traffic jam. Then we will only have to put boards on the roofs of stationary cars to allow pedestrians to pass.

The second remedy has just been found by these gentlemen at the Hôtel de Ville. It lies in the elimination of trams. Examined coldly, this panacea seems more like a simple palliative. Eliminating trams is a good start, but only a start. If we stop there, the cars of all calibers spewed out by the suburban factories at the rate of three hundred and eighty-seven per minute will soon occupy the place abandoned by the unfortunate trams, and we will be no further ahead. The condemnation of the trams must therefore be immediately followed by the abolition of buses, itself preceding the ban on taxis which will announce the exclusion of private jalopy, the ideal being to reject all vehicles beyond the fortifications with a ban on going back through their doors. Only the infirm, small children and early growers would retain the right to drive around in small cars in the streets.

And people in a hurry? some will say. Eh! the people in a hurry of that time will do as those of today, they will go on foot. - It's all a joke! Of course, but it's a pity! Can you imagine what an Eden Paris would become, finally freed from all the dirty things that are currently rolling on the streets?

Bernard GERVAISE.