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Traffic Commissioner Henry A. Barnes announced yesterday that he had authorized begintoday the operation of buses or “extended limousines and station wagons carrying up to 12 passengers on park roadways and parkways.

The directive surprised Park Commissioner Newbold Morris, who contended that the State Conservation Law bars these commercial vehicles from all parkways. Mr. Morris said he “hoped the police would do their duty and hand out tickets to drivers of such vehicles.”

At Police Headquarters, Commissioner Michael J. Murphy said his department “will enforce any regulation that Mr. Barnes makes.”

Mr. Barnes said he had not advised Mr. Morris of the revision of the regulation. Previously, the traffic rules placed a limitation of seven passengers on such vehicies using park roads and parkways.

Raising the capacity to 12 passengers will principally affect “extended limousines” that travel between airports and midtown Manhattan.

Mr. Barnes said that “the control of vehicles and pedestrians is vested in the City Traffic Department under Chapter 40 of the new City Charter.” He added:

“The City Charter luxury car service los angeles Commission specifically put the word ‘city’ in the regulations so that my department has jurisdiction over all streets and highways in the city. The only exceptions are those concerning the jurisdictions held by the Port Authority and the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority.”

The regulation still prohibits from such roads the large urban‐type buses that ordinarily carry as many as 50 to 60 persons.

Two years ago, Mr. Barnes suggested that buses be allowed to use the city parkways. His recommendation aroused the wrath of Robert Moses, who then was Commissioner of Parks. Mr. Moses described it as a “fantastic proposal.”

Mr. Moses, now president of the New York Worlds Fair, was en route yesterday to San Francisco by ship and was unavailable for comment on car service houston airport to galveston Mr. Barness action.

Mr. Barnes announced the revision in a press release from his office yesterday afternoon. Under the directive, 12‐passenger buses or limousines will be allowed to operate on such drives as those that circle Central Park and Prospect Park in Brooklyn; as well as on such parkways as the Henry Hudson, Hutchinson River and the Belt system.

“Ive known Mr. Barnes ever since he arrived here and he usually has the courtesy to consult with me,” Mr. Morris, said. “Im shocked. This is the first that Ive heard about it. Mr. Morris said the states highest court had ruled it was illegal for buses to operate on parkways and park roads.