The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-06-01

| has rO0InG
to that, for no reason whatever except
an Impotence to be somewhere else
| than where they are"
| $4,000 People Cross Street
However, it is a fact that $4,000 to
| $4,000 persons and some 5000 vehicles
cross both the Forty-second and Thir-
! ty-fourth street intersections of Fifth
| avenue in ten hours of daylight for 9TH
err purposes than to bother the traffic
police. Speaking of London, Henry
| James has written that tine skeptical
| old city breaks into laughter when she
is tickled by the vortex of Hyde Park
| corner" But at these and other vor-
| tees of Manhattan there is no smiling
laspect-mostly a harassed look, as
| though commuters were in fear of mis-
| sing their ferries and trains and thea
TRIGGERS the rise of the curtain. AZ
| ter much study by police and civic asso-
Citations the borough government is
| about to install an isle of safety In
| Fifth avenue on either side of Forty
second street, and either side of Thirty
| fourth street, as an experiment In con-
| trolling safety and facility.
Although Fifth avenue and Forty
| second street Is the most crowded
cross current 1t is not the point where
| the most people pass-if you UNDER
/ q a nn N
Rroadwav at Fulton street mt tbnns
10 ,Ittla n,heeI 10 ff,o ir E,'l. 'ne .i $
next to that ranks the block between ean
Park avenue and Lexington avenue
| Official counts of passers-by at differ
ent points In Manhattan lately made
| during period of ten hours, gave the
| following results:
| Along Broadway at Fulton
| street .................. 113 900
Fortv-second street hetwean 1a1,;,,,s
| ron and park avenues Eo9c
PARK Row Ann to paelrroan
| streets zr,ee
! tcortv-secopd street FROM sivt,, 1890
| TO Broadway % ooo
| Fifth avenue Fourteentb 70 Eiftaantb
streets 90 -,
Fiftb avenue Tbirtv-tbird 70 ,rbi,t
F, fourth streets 90 $50
| Fifth avenue at Fortv-second
| STRAIT od--o
| It is true however. that more vebi-
| clos nsss az Eiftb avenra ona n.y.,
second street ana AZ Fift6 avenua on Il
Thirty fourth street than at any ether
| noint not onl1, a, NTonbo+ton ~ -
the world Tn ten bours 75oo Of thorn
have been counted when +ba Eifth
| Avenue association made &c loo CONT
| carly In Daoanhar a. ea,,nd tha+ ~
tween III. bours ~ and %, ,as
sing vehicles of nIoasrre nrvbarad
| 7115 and the businoss ,oh;clas oes ~
| n total for fo,,. ho,,rs 80 en77 u
| m n
NJ E my oye.eh
| WI, Hno seneine " go win the
~ VI tia1iio' heepihs 10 the ;rleht
| .t 'en'iai ieiuse al the inter-
seetion u wv or more streets does
eiy weii at ooiuihpus Circle Where
| eie 10 sPace W spare. but IL is
me ioea Oh ponce and CIVIC associa-
| dRmOnSf
| nv" 'he rotary pan would De able to
| Worh at narrow, CONSTRUCTED crossings
| IKE those mentioned. Some are not
| turning places, put mainly places where
one stream OF traffic seeks to cut
straisht through the other Some are
PAGES Whefe trar1lc converges, as
spokes OF wheel at hub, but wants
u, 10 Dear straisht ahead through the hub.
mere are from four to eight busy car
tracks ana many elevated pillars &C.
cupylng space at such points. A CEN
trdl fixture or aisle of safety to run
around IKE the monument at Column
BUS Circle, would, they conclude, be
merely an obstruction
Inc rotary or gyratory system with no
central fixture has been in use for sew
eral years in New York, largely through
Mr.. Enos urgence.
BUSINESS interests In Fifth avenue and
Forty-second street are opposed to de-
pressing Forty-second street 1t might
mean that -by-and possibly Gus
tomers-would be lessened near the Fifth
avenue crossing, and that the number of
people who would turn into the avenue
would be decreased. Thus the problem Is
how to facilitate traffic and yet not di-
minish the number of passers-by who are
potential patrons of the shops. AS soon
as the Grand Central station has COM
pleted the overhead structure which Is to
carry Park avenue around the station at
the height of the second story, and thence
south over Forty-second street, it Is GER
tain to divert some of the Fifth avenue
north and south traffic. Meantime these
recommendations have been made to the
city authorities:
Compel traffic to turn corners sharply
(Which is a reversal of the Emo gyratory
idea, now in general practice).
Supply sufficient mounted police to be
able to signal a distance of SIX or eight
blocks-and thus stop crosstown move
ment simultaneously at these six or eight
streets, giving avenue vehicles continu-
GUS right of way for this distance before
holding them uR again to accommodate
crosstown movement
Forbid wheel traffic from turning about