The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-06
TO INSTALL ROTARY
SYSTEM OF TRAFFIC
Police Department Will Try 1t
at Fifth Avenue and
57th street.
HOW 1T WILL BE MANAGED
Isles Of Safety TO Be Built to
Facilitate Working
of Plan.
HOW 1T WILL BE MANAGED

New York city is 70 have new plan
OF traffic regulation tried out at some
Of its congested crossings. within a few
DAYS the Police Departments first ey
pertinent with the rotary system Will he
put in operation at FIfty-seveuth street
and Fifth avenue at the instgatioH OF the
Citizens Street Traffic Committee. The
system was planned by William Phelps
Emo. the traffic expert. and the scheme
ls t. make the traffic at certain crossings
move rotary fashion, as is now done at
Columbus Circle hut OF course on
smaller scale and within smaller area.
The Fro plan calls for five isles OF
safety one at the exact Intersection or
the TWO thoroughfarcs and the four others
placed in the centre the streets radlat-
ing from the central isle of safety. These
four will be placed on line with that
used by nedest-ians in crossing the streets
The curbs at the four corners will be
rounded of more than at preset IN order
10 permit a longer radius, which IL to be
approXimltely forty-three feet The traffic
IS TO move continuously IN a general cir
rula- direction. the crosstowu traff!c TO
weave into thu up and down town traffic,
as IS done AT IN" intersectins avenues OF
Columbus circle.
Thus an automobile going south on
Fifth avenue upon reaching Fifty-sev-
enrh street and desiring to proceed south
will at first bear 20 the right until a
circular orbit IS obtained, swinging across
Fiftv-sevonth street IN an arc or circle
and then bearing to the left again TO con-
tinue south on 20 Firth avenue In the
meantime vehicles coming east through
prif,v-seventh street will bear to the
rirht and swing around into the traiflc
CIRCLE which has the isle of safety for its
centre then bearing TO the LETT TO CON
thine east on Fifty seventh street hi'er
cutting across Fifth avenue, In the cen
ira ~ the isle OF safety Ia to be a crow
nest where n traffic policeman VIII De
stationed and from which he VIII d'r"c'
traffic 4 block system or signals also
ma. he tried out The traffic committee
,,ishes TO try out this plan Just as much
] as g., welcomes the experimental INTRO
| duction OF movi-g traffic simultaneously
| In a number Of blocks according 10 inc
| block system regulating trafhc'
last July members of the citizens
| street Traffic Committee made tou'
| about Manhattan in two motor buses ro'
the purpose 81 studying the matter OF I'm
proving traffic conditions a iuhrneot
! uy,s hold at tho Automobile C'ub ol
/ America. following which Inspector Mey
| ora head Of the police traff'c SQUAD
! TJeut SNYDER OF the traffic SQUAD VIII
lam Phelps Emo. Robert Grier Cooke
F,rst DEPUTY Commissioner McC.lntocN
Den,+y Fire Commissioner w. Holder
Weeks. street Cleaning Commissions
| Fetherston and others made the tour o
inspection AZ guests of the cluzens stree
Traffic Committee. Mr. Emo Is resp".
| aihle for the traffic regulation put mt
! force at Columbus Circle number
years ago and II IL believed that the new
Nan will result satisfactorily and tina
IL will be adopted by the city at most o
the congested traffic points