Show j 11 I a t Traffic Congestion 1 I w 9 J A A traffic has come to such a degree of congestion that city planners and R authorities the country over over are hard a pressed trying to solve this serious In spite of f all sorts of suggestions large j cities cities' are no nearer the solution than th they y yv v when were ve when the matter first forced itself to tl their attention way One str streets ets two level l i. i subdivided truck and passenger c car i- i 1 tr traffic all 1311 sorts of control towers and other devices es have been considered and even tried I t grows worse year by year New Yo York k City City of of all cities has cities has been h hardest hit in this respect In fact traffic i has s kown grown so that parking in the downtown district old old ct-old old New York York has has long tong been aban abari- done Even this relief has been temporary V. V a and now city officials face the same old ques- ques wI of congestion This time it is not so nl much j ch a problem of where to put the cars of t business st ess men when they come downtown as V ho to keep them moving without delay That this is a serious problem may be deduced deduced de- de I from the single fact that autos pass pass' Ii Fifth th avenue and second Forty-second street street- L t. York's Yorks busiest corner each corner each hour of the IJ days ClaY or ten liveliest hours two Forty-two hundred autos a tos lined up end to end would stretch along more ore than eleven miles On Fifth avenue ei go o six abreast three lines going north l and L three south fr This iS in a less degree perhaps i is the I j 1 1 I tern fern of every growing com community unity in the coun coun- try Parking can be cared for in one way or another But keeping traffic moving has been a difficult job way One-way streets have aided some but in comparison with the whole situation they Have proven of little tittle avail Traffic Traffic fic towers special directional movements arid and other forms of relief have helped but still the problem of congestion grows For a solution something bigger than any of the relief measures already taken m must st be e considered Police Commissioner Enright of New York thought first of cutting a street parallel to Fifth avenue in the long block between between be be- tween this thoroughfare and Sixth a avenue venue But the the cost ost of this would be so high that the plan could not be considered Another plan which New York now is thinking over over seriously seriously seriously seri seri- is that of f running important cross streets underneath Fifth avenue so traffic would not be stopped either way wag This idea has been ben taken up in other cities and up to today it seems the nearest nearest to the solution n of this most seri serious us form of traffic congestion Wide streets a and d. d big blocks in Salt Lake will save this city from the traffic problem for years to come comet Not only will we be Je able to provide moving room for steady k traffic always but parking space for all cars as well |