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Show Small Villages Tire of Through Traffic Scheme The danger of picking out the main street of n town and arbitrarily making mak-ing it a through street, as pointed out in recent studies made by the National Nation-al Safety council, has recently been emphasized in several Illinois towns. Petitions have been received by the state highway commission, at Springfield, Spring-field, from representatives of small towns and villages asking that state roads, around which many of them have been built, be re-routed so that the constant stream of traffic may be diverted from their centers. According to the representatives, it was once thought advantageous to bring as much traffic into the main street as possible, for transient trade meant increased business. The flow of cars, however, has become be-come so great and the speed at which they travel so rapid that few stop at all. The Increased volume has reached a stage where it endangers the lives of the Inhabitants. Even large cities are now finding that the most successful system shunts nonstop traffic around the business district to avoid congestion in the downtown centers. |