Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-07
BOULEVARD BELT
PLAN FOR RELIEF
Of TRAFFIC
William J. Davis Works Out
Method of Betting City With
1OO-Foot Avenues.

MAN for betting the city of At
....a with 100 foot-wide north and
.rt5 boulevards to relieve congestion
NJ, psachtree and bring into promi-
MOO certain valuable sections of the
,,-v which now lie' obscured has been
,ornulated by William j. Davis, vice
.ro-ident of the water board and cash
~ If the Atlanta Banking and Saw
nos company. and will be formally laid
hsfore the board of county commission
are in the near future. The plan can
-, ,,orked out. declared MIR. Davis to
county commissioner S. B. Truman
.bis morning, with comparatively little
,o.t and will mean an asset of $1,000,
oo0 IN the city and the county.
Tho idea is to work out Orme street
,ortbvard TO BrookWood and connect
with Hemphill avenue and run into
PAGES Ferry road, and on the other
si5s ~ the city start with Piedmont
syanur or Butler street, follow the
eutler street sewer. swing back into
piedmont at point about Piedmont
,.,r, and continue northward out Pied
.eor, road to the neighborhood of
nrcllhead and North Fulton county.
Would Eliminate Negro Settlement.
To make the Orme street improve
mon. would necessitate tearing out a
settlement Of negro houses just south
If North avenue. cutting an underpass
nuder North avenue Just east of the
Tech school and underpasses under
Tenth and Fourteenth streets and the
sourhcrn railway at BrookWoOd. This
vori pointed out Mr.. Davis, could be
done mt little cost. since the street al
ready lies well. The street roiiows one
of the large sewer mains as far as
Tenth street, whence the sewer is to
be extended soon by the county. M.
Davis plan calls for n parkway in the
middle Of This street over the sewer
main AMI the same arrangement on
the Builder street thoroughfare. Vehi-
r,6s viii so out on the right~hand SIDE
and come in on the opposite side.
Orma street ends at Cain street ego
ing solthl, from which point people
could take the intersecting streets
Barlow. Luckie, Nassau-for upper
Marietta street, the Grant and Empire
buildings, the Piedmont hotel. the Can
der building and other places where
they might wish to so. At any point
they could cut into Peachtree on the
cast and Marietta street on the west.
Would Follow Natural Contour.
The 0oulevards suggested would fol-
low the natural contour of the land
and could he made into driveways such
as Boston and other large cities of the
i country possess.
County Commissioner Truman was
enthusiastic over Mr.. Davis scheme
He said
THE county should go about getting
i ae necessary land for the project. Both
\ city and county have all the work they
can do at present, but the land can be
i given HOW and the work done later
\ There are only half dozen owners be-
4 tween North avenue and BroolIwood,
Il and the owners from North avenue
n southwark would also be glad to give
4 enough to widen the street. This looks
i like an opportunity to relieve traffic
congestion on Peachtree. and the COM
4 missoners will doubtless take advan-
tage Of it,"
From the business center to Brook
a wood by way of Orme street is about
two and one-half miles, and by Peach
\ Zee, half a mile farther