Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-03-22
CITY PLANNERS
TELL WHAT A|LS
4 CORNERS TRAFFIC
Lack Of Snap : Prin-
cipal Cause of
Trouble.
CARS ARE LOADED AND
UNLOADED TOO SLOWLY
Then, Unnecessary Stops Are
Made and Many Routes
Are Wrong.

The City Plan Commission today
submitted to Mayor Haussling, the
Board of Works and other city Off
cials recommendations regarding traf-
| fc operations at the Four Corners and
| the intersection of Broad and Bridge
streets
The reoommenda tions, (Which were
transmitted by Secretary Robert L.
Ross, of the Planning Commission, are
the result of the labors of its expert
advisers, G. B. Ford and E. p. Good
rich.
Comparison with streets In Brook
lyn and Manhattan the trainers OF
the recommendations say, shows that
the number of street cars operated
and their speed is not as great on
Market street in Newark as in other
localities, and since similar street car
equipment and other comparable con-
ditions exist i'm each Of the three
cases, the conclusion is inevitable that
the street car operation on Market
street is deficient.
This fault is due to several causes.
among which the following might be
mentioned: Lack of snap in the opera
tion of cars, exaction of many really
unnecessary stops by the cars, too
many cars turned in and out of the
traffic and too much obstruction
caused by vehicular traffic turning
across the tracks.
There is too much laXity in load.
ing and unloading street cars and IN
allowing pedestrians to cross almost
at random in front of cars.
The railroad company should be re-
quired to operate its equipment with
more animation. The public should be
educated to respect the rights of way
of street cars and vehicles.
Two-car Trains.
.'The railfoaG company is already
experimenting with two-car trains,
Their work is along proper lines.
1T should also be brought out clear
ly that the general public cannot toll
crate the holding of a car at the ex-
pense of a full load for one or two
persons, whether loading or unload
ing, where those persons are slow or
careless.
THE railroad company should be
required to reroute certain number
of its cars. Only minimum num-
Der of Bloomfield and Paterson cars
should be allowed to turn from Broad
into Market street.
Some arrangement should be made
for loop to prevent all of the cars
crossing Broad street which now oper-
ate into the southeasterly portion of
the city. Such a loop might be ar
ranged with ease without the acquisi-
ton of property, but it is believed
some effective steps should also be
taken to straighten Washington
street by acquisition of property on
the southerly side of Market street.
This area could well be used for loop
ing purposes for cars which could
pick up passengers originating in the
vicinity of the intersection of Broad
and Market streets and those origin
ating east of Broad street on Paterson
and Bloomfield cars, who could read
lily be transferred.
Studies of conditions demonstrate
that William, Washington and Null
berry, streets bear such a strategic
relation to Broad and Market that
they should be given study along lines
of making use of them for street car
purposes.
"William street should be widened,
Strengthened and grades reduced and
street car lines provided in it.
"The Strengthening of Mulberry
street throughout certain portions OF
its length will allow more cars to be
routed over it, with corresponding
reduction in those on Broad street.
Property Values Would Increase.
with the improvement of those
streets and of the conditions at the
Four Corners general property values
would be so far increased as to more
than pay for the expenditures en-
tailed. so that the general community
would be more than compensated for
any small reduction which might oc.
cur in the values at the intersection
of Broad and Market streets due TO
a lessening of the crowds which now
concentrate there
In regard to the congestion at the
intersection of Bridge and Broad
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