Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-02 | Page 2 | Telegram Begins Traffic Series; Careful Survey Results Given

Telegram Begins Traffic Series Careful Sur Survey ey Results Given I 9 Street Street- StreetCar Car and Automobile I Automo-I Automo- Automo bile Offer Real Problem lem to City This is the first of a series of ar- ar tides dealing with the growing traffic problems of Salt Lake City and prepared especially for the readers reades of The Salt Lake Telegram from a survey just completed by Ross Ros MI W. W Harris consulting engineer engi- engi fleer neer of Madison Wis The problem of regulating city traffic has developed Into a matter of first Importance according to Mr Harris Already the situation In Salt Lake City is critical his survey suney reveals and each year brings added complications to the problem by vIrtue of increases In population and traffic The imp importance of this Is emphasized emphasized em- em In his survey by the steady growth of the city for with the developmEnt of the commercial and Industrial Interests there occurs occurs oc- oc curs an expansion of the city area and a general Increase of distance between the point of residence and the point of employment And the survey points out any increase of this dir nce means transportation WIDTH OF STREETS CO CONSIDERED N S I 0 E RED The automobile and the street streetcar car he sa says s are the in in- informs forms of city transportation conveyance These conveyances for the masses flow through all th the city streets and especially through the streets of the downtown downtown down down- town district Streets whose width nd carrying capacity were thought adequate he explains are now congested con con- and as used are becoming Inadequate Streets that once were adequate for forthe the maller city the then mode of transportation transportation- were not designed to care for the present large number of rapIdly moving automobiles automobiles au- au he out and this creates the problem of Increasing the carrying capacity of streets of fixed width to and kinds of traffic without precedent This can be accomplished ac- ac he declared only by suitable regula lon conceived In a afar atar tar far teeing pUblic spirited attitude CAPACITY MUST BE GREATER One needs to give but brief consideration consideration con con- to the question of servIng serving ing enormouSly increased traffic demand with street of fixed width to realize that such increasing tlc lie demand cannot long be accommodated adequately according to Mr Harris unless there Is a correspondIng corresponding cor- cor respondIng Increase of available street carrying capacity for bandling han ban such traffic p particularly within the downtown district An effort should be made first i he declares along th the line of strict traffic regulation by the city au- au When this falls he reveal reveal re veal the expensive and difficult process ot of street widening must be resorted to otherwise the downtown downtown down down- town district will shift because of Inaccessibility and great losses of property value may be experience Ills His survey reveals that conald- conald I of the question shows two distinct types of traffic to be ac- ac one the automobile the other the street car which are joint users of the streets and must be considered concurrently He does not slight however other I forms of traffic such as the horse drawn vehicle and pedestrians and Continued on paGe 10