The sun., 1916-11-19
ten hours Of the day to Tie 1900

the ton hours Of the day To Tie II, 900
vehicles.
What is the remedy?
Give ear 20 the words OF Arthur
Woods. Police Commissioner and ar
bitter II traffic. To him must be ac-
corded tho first word because in him
Is invested the authority OF the rules
Of tho Dad. His bluecoats regulate
your walk or your driving speed. lie
;ol's you how close you must keep
Your automobile to the curb. hon far
away from halted street cars. 1t is
his right TO tell you when ana wne.c
20 cross the street.
The situation is that OF ten men
who come to a bridge that sdmits of
the passage o: only one at a time"
l.e said. "lf they all rush 10 try to get
over 1T once there is more delay than
II they consented to let one pass at a
time.
New York IL n city made up of ten
cities. within its limited area 1t must
accommodate the traffic and pcdes-
TRANS OF these ten cities. The only
way 10 do Il Is TO insist on concessions,
TO regulate tine flow according to the
space.
The prohlcm is becoming harder
10 handle every day because of the in
crease in numbers Of persons and yc-
hicles, IL is not difficult to see that
- we must devise some remedy
that viii relieve h pressure.
There Is nothing in traffic rcgula-
ti"n that Will improve the situation.
We have combed the systems of the
world n have given them all a trial.
The one We now use is the only one
that FITS Manhattan conditions.
only in the direction of opening
new roadways does the remedy lie.
For the present the subway ~construc-
ton interferes with us. We would like
10 clear up seventh avenue for the
diversion of some of the traffic through
that artery, but we cannot do Il until
the underground is built. our more
immediate relief lies in the building
of Il viaduct that will carry the traffic
OF upper Park avenue through to
Forty-frst or Fortleth street"
Let it be injected parenthentically
here that so far as upper Park venue
goes it is Il magnificent t~horoughfare
above the Grand Central Station. At
the station it takes the automobiles in
a fine roadway around the building
and then leaves them perched there.
on a driveway high in the air and
with no communication with the street
below. The construction OF a VIA
. duct AT this point has been under
discussion for years.
y one seems to know when We
, are going to get that road" went on
Commissioner Woods. THE last
f., heard of 1t we may get il after Jan
nary /. 1917. when the subway and
, Steinway tunnel construction at Forty.
second street Is finished.
Then We ought to open up PARK
avenue to Fourth avenue by another
viaduct at Thirty-fourth street. That
too, has been talked OF for years. II
> we had this avenue clear from end &c
end and the subway construction wa,
/. finished on seventh venue we woul,
get two more arteries. This woulC
tremendously relieve the pressure.
another means Of relief at point,
= like f'orty-sccond street and Fifth ave
@ nue. is to give the public undergroun,
or overhead passage across the street
: We could in this Nay clip much from
$ the delays caused at this point an,
n thus would let the avenue traffic pro
coed in a flow interrupted only by tn
passing OF the crosstown caAs m,
other c~onveyances.
8 ITO look further ahead we must d