Section 277: Power to prohibit use of public streets for certain kinds of traffic.

(1) It shall be lawful for the 1Municipal Commissioner with the sanction of the 2Corporation to —\br @s (a) prohibit vehicular traffic in any particular public street vesting in the 2Corporation so as to prevent danger, obstruction or inconvenience to the public by fixing up posts at both end of such street or portion of such street ;\br @s (b) prohibit in respect of all public streets, or particular public streets, the transit of any vehicle of such form, construction, weight or size or laden with such heavy or unwieldy objects as may be deemed likely to cause injury to the roadways or any construction thereon, or risk or obstruction to other vehicles or to pedestrians along or over such street or streets, except under such conditions as to time, mode of traction or locomotion, use of appliances for protection of the roadways, number of lights and assistants and other general precautions and the payment of special charges as may be specified by the 1Municipal Commissioner generally or specially in each case.\br @s (2) Notices of such prohibitions as are imposed under subsection (1) shall be posted up in conspicuous places at or near both ends of the public streets or portions thereof to which they relate, unless such prohibitions apply generally to all public streets.