love you stop where you are clearing the building the first houses near a crossroads and the character in the mill these were gradually connected by footpath and horse trail as settlement grew into a delayed as they came rode for wagons and carriages as commerce and industry thrived the people sought out easier and faster ways of moving about but as the but the automobile just got better and better pretty soon it wasn't just a curator or a convenience became part of the american standard of living imagine what this country would be like without on it would be impossible to live in many parts of the country without them but business or for travel or recreation or vacation there's nothing like that the million americans can't be wrong but millions of cars take up a lot of room specially when too many of them are in the same place at the same time traffic congestion gets worse and worse because more and more while we go about our daily work take this modern office building if all the people in the building drove their cars the word the parking area required would be greater than the floor space of the building itself city planners and traffic engineers have been trying valiantly to make more space available for traffic handling but the increasing number of cars requires wider street and more off grid parking lot in many cases the land must be sacrificed to the traffic monster but these changes only bring more cars into already overcrowded downtown streets and the traffic situation becomes more acute than aggravating than it ever was convenience safety pleasure we've been trying to move traffic when the basic intent and is to move is the objective in every community to move people to factories and offices to turkey to school to a playground and home again they number of people must by some practical means enter the area where they work shop and play most cars carry only one or two people within this block fifty people in forty car no wonder we have traffic congestion now here's a practical approach public transit let's see how it helps solve our problems a motorbike can carry as many people as all the cars that can be jammed into a city block one probably goes to provide enough transportation per trip to eliminate the need for as many as fifty parking spaces in a downtown area a modern street car with its large carrying capacity handles enough traffic each day to remove hundreds of cars from heavily congested downtown area a for practice of this can carry one hundred thousand people per hour in each direction to do the same job with automobiles would require more than one hundred lanes of highway over a half mile wide and costing many times more than the entire rapid transit system this is the lanes of carrying capacity can be added to a freeway by building a two track rapid transit line down the center let's take a closer look at our transit system dependable ride for you and live where do you want to go what time how many of you at a time these questions have all been studied by your transit company on the main thoroughfares or trains running over private right of way proved to be the most practical way to handle large numbers of people in the large city of those are made possible by trained skilled people ensure high standards of performance high standards for equipment too must be upheld regular inspections and maintenance go on daily because the safety and convenience of thousands of people are concerned on rapid transit lines black signals control the safe movement of many trains the location and movements of each train control of the dispatchers  we must move people or our cities will be strangled to move people cities must take drastic action stablish a system of arterial and local street controlled traffic lights that feeds the flow to work and enforce driving and parking restrictions in heavily traveled streets than parking on main streets during rush hours restrict turns at busy intersection and some cities may have to reserve street or at least traffic for transit vehicles alone because one person in one car hundreds of people in the transit options may have to accept deliveries that often you must give the transit system a fair break then tax legislation then with neutrality enforced surface transit can give the service of rapid transit it will be even more convenient and practical to park your car outside the downtown area on the outskirts there is make your transit system will then get you to work and in half the time is more dangerous than the transit drive you will be able to ride to the corner near insurance rates will be reduced value of the property will be saved for business and industry and because of reduce congestion the flow of the majority who already ride if you're sick of fighting traffic now what do you think it might do you want your town strangled by traffic congestion continually destruction of valuable property grow your town will be going