Show Narrow Streets Are A re Proving Costly N Ye Y Loses Million Daily Bu Traffic n lly En ET KLEIN r NEA NE Scribe Ken on Ire IreThe The Tho narrow of New York mot most congested city In the thc coun court country tr try point to lo other communities on the wisdom of planning possible city growth years ahead of ot time and of or controlling Its KB expansion In Inthe Inthe Inthe the future In this city moro more than else else- elsewhere else elsewhere where two opposites opposite have met to the detriment tit bf b traffic the traffic the nar narrow row streets and the tall sk skyscrapers P- P Pere er ers ere l For or the width of or the he streets tho Ihn present city ail ailbe a cant can't be blamed But Dut other cities ore being warned against Imitating New York In the construction ot of Here are veritable cities In themselves sticking up Into Inlo the sky alongside streets usually too narrow to 10 handle the ordinary run of oC traffic ThE They're built In the hearts rix o of cities where tret were laid out years earll ago without the Iho knowledge or forethought o 0 I future possibilities LOST OST DULY U The result Is h a 11 a situation Ilk New Yorks York's In many other outer elt striving striving to become great E D I P Goodrich traffic author author- authorIty authority authority ity figures that New Now York Is los losIng losIng Ing a II day due to traC- traC raf raf- raffle raffle rt congestion Ion and that It would cost coat In reconstruction to avoid this thin loss tn to the future tal Eh aled and surface car lines would I have to be bo abandoned two and three tiers lien of ot roadways would have to be bo built tunnels would woul 1 have to 1 bo be 0 dug and most costly o of all buildings would have to beof be sliced otC ot of and d to make I room for tor t the he Increasing traffic Whilo he lIe estimates tho the presence I of oC about vehicles In New NewYork NewYork NewYork York by 19 0 his curve urve of or figures goes sharp sharply up until by lOGO 1060 ho he I It t New Yorks York's traffic to 1 w t s r I i I I LI j x Some Same streets In ht downtown n New NewYork X NewYork cw York like Nn XII an all street have hOo fco so I h at Bt busy hours hOurI that lint automobiles al arc ci cx c muted then tn atilt and permitted only way WR way one at other limes run up to vehicles al- al almost al almost most twice t the number of oC o vehicles In tho entire state slate today Since nce automobiles will increase I where as aa fast tast as 03 they will In Inlew New lew York a jump of almost almot per cent In III their number would curse ClU considerable traffic difficulty's tits firs in many cities ot of o the Iho country Goodrich figures this sump jump on the tho contemplated bails basig of oC five persons to each cach motor vehicle IS il To avoid tills this possibility of con con Oon he as s well as most other traffic authorities points to three es First Is la the llio limitation limitation In height ot of future buildings t to- to conform with will tho the width of oC streets they they face Second Is III the tho provision of ot ade- ade adequate ade adequate quate Quale platting and zoning law for future spread ot of the thc city Third la is I the planning of oC future wide arterial highways Lack of oC these three Is what caused present congestion It Is said Even EVIn the adoption of oC these principles pies has to ba such as u to al- al allow allow al allow low for flexibility In the future A A street that may appear ridiculously ridiculously ridiculously wide wide today loday may ma m y turn turn out to tobe tobe tobe be sorrowfully tomorrow I a |