The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-12

tine eighth installment on the
needs Of Rock Island in its problems
OF dty planning has been prepared
BY Z. b. 0tspp. member Of tbs city
planning commission. - given below.j
Until a good street plan is pro-
vided a city cannot develop proper
ly. The street plan is the skeleton
Of the city; it is the frame work Of
the structure in the art of noble
city building. All too commonly, in
our American cities, streets were
laid out without proper regard Tor
present needs and with no thought
Of the future. Lot owners were
permitted to plot their land to ben
ent themselves alone, and to open
streets that come froL nowhere
and lead to nothing. Frequently
this resulted In a different street
plan for every five or six blocks
and there was scarcely a continu-
Gus thoroughfare from one part OF
town to the other. Outlying Sec
tions would have no direct avenue
Of approach to the business dis
trict The regret 10 that conditions
Of this kind exist in Rock Island
However. 1t 10 not too late to rem
ely most Of our mistakes along this
line. but it will require the cooper
alton Of every citizen and for the
good Of all these civic defects
should be rectified.
Reference has already been made
to the immediate need Of extending
Mill street to the southwest over
Rock river to intersect the Anda.
lusia road; to the extension, when
the need arises, of Twenty-fourtt
or Thirtieth street, and Fifth OF
Sixth street south over Rock rive,
to the adjacent territory on thu
south. Opening of Eleventh stree,
from Eighteenth avenue south tt
the intersection of Ninth street BY
Strengthening. grading and paving
The new railroad terminal ant
harb0r plans described in proceed
ing articles on city planning will
make POSSIBLE the extension o.
First avenue from Twentieth stree
to Twenty-fourth street; of Secont
avenue from Twentieth street cas-
to the Moline limits; of Third ant
Fourth avenue from Twenty-fourtl
street east to Thirty-ninth street
Of Twenty-first, Twenty-second AMI
Twenty-third streets from Thirt
avenue north to First avenue ex
tended; of Twenty-seventh an,
,Twenty-eighth streets from Fiftl
avenue north to Second avenue ex
tended.
Widen Twenty fourth Street.
We should plan to widen TWEEN
ty-fourth street from the rive
south to Seventh avenue. The new
railroad terminal IN provid I 70
depressing the tracks which will
make it possible to eliminate tn
Twenty fourth street viaduct. Tn
bridge here is inadequate an
should be replaced by the govern
ment with an ornate structure dou
BILE the capacity of the presen
bridge. We should strive to max
the Twenty-fourth street approac
to the city ample and attractive il
every way.
Sixth avenue should be made
continuous thoroughfare from Firs
street to Moline by opening tn
sections from Seventeenth to Nine
teenth street, from Twenty-sixth t
Twenty-seventh street. from TWEEN
ty-ninth to Thirty-first street, an
from Thirty-sixth to Thirty-eight
street, and paving all unpaved pol
tions. Open Ninth avenue frol
Twenty-fifth to Twenty-sevent
street. Extend Twenty-ninth stree
from Seventh avenue south to ST,
teenth avenue from Seventh avenu
north to Second avenue EXTENDED
Many other extensions should b
made and new streets opened, pal
ticularly in the new territory to til
south.
To give direct access to the bus
ness district from the south "a
and southwest sections of the cit
we should plan two radial, or dial
Eonal thoroughfares extending GU
ward from the business district
these outlying areas. Nature hs
already provided in part for one I
: these radials. At Twenty-fift
street a ravine with almost impe
: ceptible grade wends its wa
! through the hill to point at abo'