Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-22
BOULEVARD IS
NEEDED AROUND
INDIANAPOLIS
Continued From Page one.)

there is the necessity of travelling over
only Capitol avenue, Meridian street,
Central and College avenues to get across
Fall Creek to interrupt full enjoyment
of the drive. Practically all north and
south traffic in the north side goes ever
these bridges. Some gets around to the
Sutherland and Northwestern avenue
bridges. Some viii go by way Of the
Boulevard place bridge when it is made
passable by the construction Of APP
proaches and paving Of Boulevard place
from TwentyFIrst street to Fall Greek,
but most of the movement over the latter
three is and will be from east to west
The difficulties OF getting across the
creek probably keep many people from
other sections from driving along broad,
beautiful Maple road, to the State Fair
Ground and around Riverview Drive and
other routes to Broad Ripple park.
Getting to Broad Ripple is not the easy
task it should be to afford most people
the maximum Of pleasure. Central and
College avenues are direct routes, but
the paving of both is not conducive to
easy riding the entire way and the canal
road which is crossed at the north is any
thing but a boulevard. The canal road Is
the chief obstacle in the route by way Of
Meridian street.
The route to Broad Ripple by way of
Maple Road to the State Fair Grounds
thence northeast to keystone and north
to the road leading east of the park is
not particularly desirable at present be-
cause Of stretch of bad road between
the Fair Grounds and Keystone avenue
and the road east from the park is closed.
FAIRVIEW PARK
HARD TO REACH.
Fairview Park is a nice place to pic
mic, but hard place to reach excepting
on street cars. The only good route now
open is through Meridian and Illinois
streets to a point within about half a
mile of the park. There it is necessary
to get from Meridian to Illinois, If the
former route has been used that far, and
from Illinois, because Forty-Sixth street
is torn ur with sewer construction be-
tween Illinois and Boulevard place one
must jog around through Hampton drive
or some other new east and west street
in the neighborhood until the section of
Forty Sixth street leading into the park
finally is reached. Completion of the
pavement Of Boulevard place from
Thirty Fourth to Forty Second streets
will practically provide new route,
making it profitable to use Capitol ave-
nue. in crossing FAN Greek.
Viewed from several angles the mosa
accessible beauty spot in town is
Cemetery-CrOwn Hill. It can be reached
over any of the highways crossing Fall
Creek, and when the Boulevard place
Improvement running in front of it Is
done, it viii be adequately linked with
Maple road for approach from the south.
1t should be kept in mind that in
reaching none of these north side points
Of interest is it possible to come from
Iryingtor, the extreme west side or the
south side with any degree Of riding
comfort without passing through the
business district. The same thing holds
true of course, in going from the north
side to the other points.
| Riverside Park must lie approached by
/ more or less uortuous ways. Once across
/ FAN Creek there is the boulevard and
/ Burdsau Parkway. both broad, uncrowd-
/ ed and well paved, good examples OF
/ what the travelling public would like to
/ see all over the city. If a more direct
route than the boulevards is desired the
park can be reached from the business
district over Indiana avenue and the
Speedway road. Indiana avenue Ordinar-
lily Is not followed the full distance be-
cause Of the unpaved stretch between
M1ntcalm and Sixteenth streets. The
board Of works and county commissioners
soon may fill this gap, however. Right
angle approaches to the park are at
forded by the north and south streets
to Thirtieth street, thence west, and by
West Washington street and the west
drive of White River boulevard. Crowded
! streets, which are not beautiful, are en-
! countered on both these right angle
routes.
For one month out Of the year, when
| the race season is on traffic to the Speed
way is heavy. During the rest Of the
year folks occasionally like to show the
place off to visitors But you can't get
to the Speedway over any bed of roses,
! or even an unbroken stretch of good pave
ment The Indiana avenue route is
spoiled by the unpaved stretch mentioned
above: Speedway avenue is in poor con-
dition; the Charlottesville road, once 1t
is reached by one of the other highways,
is excellent: the Thirtieth street route
is out of the-way and cOngested while
the West Washington street-Belmont,
Holmes and Tibbs avenue and West
White River Drive means of getting into
approaching distance are noe direct
It is conceivable that the stock yards
might become q point Of great interest
to visitors but the only hope of getting
to it is Kentucky avenue. damned with
commercial vehicles, street cars, railroad
tracks and cut up by one unpaved Sec
ton lust west OF LuS BIluS6 over W Ilto
River. You have to get into Kentucky
avenue to get to the stock yards and ID
is practically necessary that you come
downtown before you can get TO 1t from
any other direction than from the south
side.
GARFIELD PARK
IS ISOLATED.
Probably the worst isolated of the
traffic islands" is beautiful Garfield
Park. site of the second most beautiful
municipal gardens in the United States.
There is no well paved, uncongested route
to Garfield Park from any section except
the small residential district lying inn
mediately around it. People Of the
south side who live only few blocks
away can not get into it without driving,
over some ahominable pavements. Co
ing to Garfield Park from the business
district means following either Madison
avenue or South Meridian street, both OF
which have many bad spots and are
crowded Each street has several bad