The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
TRAFFIC TIPS
TO BE. GIVEN in
PARSONS SURVEY
ID. U. r. Will Be Shown by Ex-
perts How Service Can be
Improved
REPORT WILL NOT BE
READY TILL JANUARY
Council Probe Requested by the
Mayor Can Accomplish Moth
ing in Meantime

The report on the traffic survey
being made for the municipal railway
commission by Barclay Parsons Il
Klapp, OF New York, will contain
number Of pertinent suggestions TO
the d. U. r. Cor the betterment of
service conditions on the various city
lines. Ii is not epected that the sur
yey will be made public before Janu.
airy, although the actual work is prac-
tically finished now. According to
Jay G. Hayden, secretary OF the street
railway commission. 1t will take more
than month 10 compile the data.
Numerous maps and sketches, show
Ing and explaining traffic conditions
as they now exist, will accompany
the report which will be complete in
every detail
Meanwhile the council investixa-
ton into traffic conditions ordered by
Mayor Marx will not be able to sc-
complish anything OF particular value,
although Aid. Lodge. chairman of the
committee on public utilities, de-
clares he will take up the invest,ga-
tion as soon as the mayor returns
from his eastern trip. The mayor,
before he left, said he would gather
trafic and service data In other cities
for use by the committee. Many OF
the alderman agree that they can
only mark time until the traffic sur.
vey Is finished. Then much will de-
pend upon the attitude of the ID. u. II.
.Tha "a fIwoy .x,fl n -
to make some material improvements
In service IL they will act upon the
suggestions OF the traffic experts
said Secretary Hayden. "Of course,
there Is no telling how the ID. u. r..
will receive these suggestions. I can
realize how the company will howl
IL II Is suggested that service I'm n
certain direction can be improved by
the operation of cars OF five-cent lines
over three-cent lines for portion of
the route. However, there are sew
eral ways In which the company can
improve conditions by following the
advice OF the experts. without inter-
fering with any OF their fare conten.
tions and without the city getting into
any complications with the company.
The survey will be very complete and
comprehensive. II will cover .raffic
conditions In every part OF the city.
The ID. u. r. has assisted the experts
In making the survey. So as to have
the survey correct. all the information
obtained by the experts from tho
company is carefully checked up.
Much attention has been paid to de-
tail. For instance, force of men
spent several days in the ID. II. r.
office counting room filed with
punched transfers. The experts did
not take the ID. u. r. transfer figures:
they went to the Office and actually
counted the transfers."
Secretary Hayden said that com.
lparisons with the register readings On
the Woodward-ave. cars show that the
checkers employed by the commits
sion to get an indication of the volume
and direction OF trafflc on the Wood.
ward line, are securing return checks
/ from 81 per cent of the passengers.
The commissioners want to know IL
traffic conditions on Woodward-aye.
necessitate the consideration of a
subway service and II SO. how far
north the tunnel would have TO reach
to accommodate the most people, or
| IL desirable results could be obtained
| by dipping" the service cars into O
subway. or by building parallel lines.
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