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Transcript: Most Traffic Laws Have Same Author
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- September 23, 1995
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William Eno wrote most of the world's traffic laws, including those
providing tickets for offenders. He drew up rules of the road for
New York City in 1903, but fought with Washington, D.C., for 25 years.
JACKI LYDEN, Host: There's a good chance you're listening to this
program in your car. You slow down for a red light, you put on your
blinker, you drive on the right side of the road. You probably don'
t even think about all this as you do it. But you aren't William
Phelps Eno, a man whose passion for order fathered nearly all the
traffic laws we use today.
Living in New York City at the Turn of the Century, where one person
a day was killed in the ...