Sec. 246. 

No ordinance regulating the manner of the use of public streets and other public ways for travel, including the use and operation of vehicles or the placing of obstructions thereon, or ordinance enacted in the exercise of any other power relative to traffic conferred upon local authorities by any law, shall be adopted unless such ordinance shall have first been submitted to and approved by the Board of Traffic Commissioners or unless adopted by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members of the Council in favor thereof. Failure on the part of the board to disapprove a proposed ordinance within ninety days from the receipt thereof shall be deemed an approval by the board. Nothing in this section shall be construed to restrict or otherwise affect the granting of franchises as elsewhere provided in this Charter, nor shall any of the provisions of this section apply to the routing or rerouting of street cars or motor bus lines or abridge the power of the Council to order any work or improvement as elsewhere provided in this Charter.  (Former section repealed, 1947; new section added, 1953.)