Kennewick's 1916 Traffic Plan: Yield to Anyone Driving North or South

One of the provisions of the proposed Kennewick ordinance regulating vehicle traffic is pretty sure to cause considerable confusion if not serious accidents. This is the clause providing that vehicles going in a northerly or southerly direction shall have right of way at street intersections or crossings over vehicles going in an easterly or westerly direction. Even if touring motorists had some way of finding out that there was an ordinance in Kennewick which set aside the rules of the road commonly in operation throughout the country, we venture that not one out of three could tell for certain the points of the compass without stopping to locate the sun or looking for the moss on the north fronts of the tall buildings or some other well known sign, and where the streets run half way between the points of the compass we challenge anyone to interpret the regulation. The rule in operation all over the country provides that the driver must give right of way to vehicles approaching on his left, and if the Kennewick council would substitute such a provision in the proposed ordinance they would prevent accidents.