Show P plan spiral scheme to store autos to solve the parking problem in its heavy traffic centers lendo i arch sects propose the erection towering structures patterned after buildings buil din s in a ancient assyria according to a writer in the dally daily telegraph contending Conten dins that the outside spiral on many of the larger assyrian buildings was not a stairway but a ramp for their chariots to be driven up and down the writer says before many months have passed we may see erected in london not a tower of mabel babel but a great shop or business building in which each floor door department or office will be directly reached from its own self contained carriage way rising about it from the street level to the roof the roadway more than one mile long circles the outside of the structure like a spiral along which would face the store fronts of the mer chaut tenants there would be a balcony at each floor level on one face of the rectangle normally at the rear are one way ramps 10 feet wide connecting each floor with the next two ramps between each pair of floors doors one for ascending and one for descending cars and thus there is no crossing traffic tr atric corning coming down to save time the car would descend by lift the whole suggestion Is put forward as the beginning of a polut solution aon of the car parking and traffic lem which already has become a serious menace to the cevelo development p in e nt of property apart from the question of safety of the traveling public where two or more such buildings faced one another across the street balcony might be linked to balcony and so bring into being the prophetic vision of overhead roadways 11 |