Show Six Major Plans Developed 6 By Authorities In hi Efforts To Solve Traffic Problems By y ISRAEL ISRIEL J LEIX I Science c Editor XI EA Semite Sen ice New e York wants to tryout try out one system stem of ot traffic Chicago an- an another another an another other to reduce congestion and fatalities while traffic engineers are hard at It seeking the ulti- ulti ultimate ulti ultimate mate solution to this puzzle Traffic Is the Ibe greatest problem facing the automobile driver to- to today to today day du Ho Ito Needn't know a I thing about his car but while hes he's at atthe atthe atthe the wheel be h is thrown Into a amaze amaze maze from which It Is S purely up to him to extricate himself Various traffic authorities have havo offered to help him out and out n I a ahard ahard ahard hard time they're having of Df it t Hero Here for Instance Is a sum sum- summary summary summary mary of ot the more outstanding so so to the traffic traffic- problem today t of CONTINUOUS MOVEMENT MO 1 Ernest P Goodrich New NewYork NewYork NewYork York consulting engineer offers the tho idea of continuous movement on way one-way streets north and ancl south streets as well as east and west While movement mD on the main streets Is uninterrupted ed that on the cross streets Js Is made to alternate after every ev block so that a machine cross cross- crossing Inc crosa-Inc ing east and west would have ha to wind In and out of traffic up one street and back bacle another 2 3 Goodrich has hu another Idea of the th platoon or progressive eye eye- system system tem by which autos may move continuously along alone any street but butas butas butas as part of ot a grou group croup p and at a deft nite speed These groups or platoons cross at it regular Inter Inter- Intervals vals cal al keeping traffic moving mo all thI time under control of a 11 deft nit nits traffic control system 3 Another Idea presented by Gt Goodrich drle and other authorities la Is 1 that hat of speed highways elevated from cross cros streets to which ramps lead and on which autos are per per- permitted permitted per permitted to 10 travel at a maximum speed WANT STEP SYSTEM U 4 i Since congestion Is greatest at Quitting time for offices and factories New York authorities are considering the Idea of ot a astep astep step system by which large buildings or firms alternate in dismissing their help C Ii Clarence R n Snethen of the Los ile Anc-ile- traffic suggests smaller cars care of Df design permitting two cars to op- op operate operate op operate erate where one does docs now as a solution Cars must tit fit present streets ho he says Instead of trying to widen streets for the th present large cars 6 I hexagonal blocks have been suggested by II a Canadian engi- engi engineer engineer neer with a a system s slem b by which traffic can enn be speeded up with greater safety on the same level All these Ideas except the last two are aro ro already on trial or at l least ast are being seriously planned The platoon continuous move move- movement movement movement ment and speed highway systems will be tried out there while New ew York Is trying to get ret large firms and office bu buildings 11 to co- co cooperate co cooperate operate in the tho trial of the tho step system of dismissing their help I |