The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-09


OF suitable paving for such traffic.
II Is, obviously mistake and an un-
necessary expense to have uuduly
wide rOadways OF heavy pavemcnts
on streets that should be used only
a. resident streets. \ careful and
thorough study to determine what
streets logically will be major streets
and what streets should be secondary
or residence streets will result In not
only great convenience iu the hand
ling ot tracN, hGt also n tho 5a ,:--
Of millions Of dollars by not paving
roadways of Unnecessary width ON
the latter type Of streets
\ brief consideration OF Tulsa's
present streets and traffic shows that
practically all OF the east and west
streets between Second and Eighth
streets have bad offsets at kenosha
street. with the result that oil traffic
has TO mark sharp turns 0t kcnOshn
street and most Of u is concentrated
on sixth street going on east This
traffic going out to the eastern por-
tions Of town and particularly TO the
Kendall district has TO make two
more sharp turns at Peoria street.
The congestion of traffic through
this section is such that these sharp
turns are great points of danger as
Wcll HS cause Nl u'hF 10 tlhll4G' ~
proper direct connection, eliminating
unnecessary sharp turns. should be
worked out TO carry this traffic from
sixth street on into the city and at
the same time the heavy volume Oi
traffic on several streets In this sec
tion should be protected by the
building of "a subway eliminating I. %
necessity Of % grade crossing at the
Midland Valley tracks.
Tho rapid development Of north
and south traffic on Boulder. Main,
/ Boston and Cincinnati, particularly
out 20 Fifteenth street, and the cN-
trcme congestion OF traffic on Fiji
/ Itecnth street from tho intersections
with these streets on east is giving
serious concern to the property own
+ crs and 10 the city at this time. Care
/ ful study must be given 10 the widen
/ ing of the roadway on these streets
/ where feasible and possibly TO the
development of one or more parallel
tratfiC-wavs TO relieve Fifteenth
street. Tho congestion Of traffic on
/ Fifteenth street from Boston on east
/ tor quite % way az this time is a
serious danger 10 traffic and causes
a very great delay during the rush
hours
Sometime ago g. was proposed u
develop Eleventh street a. a through
street and a subway was built under
the Midland Valley tracks at that
point. The proper working out OF a
through traffic-way from the bust.
ness section Of the city to this via.
duct and along Eleventh street or
east is a matter of future necessity
and should be gotten under way al
the earliest possible date.
These are merely cited as some OF
the obviously needed street Corroc,
tions. Many other instances can b,
cited and I'm planning for the future
city we must not only correct mis-
takes we have made but must de
.termino on what are going to be tn,
main thoroughfares Of the futur,
and plan for their extension will
proper width and without jog
through the outlayinE sections an,
the territory adjacent to the cit.
which will he developed as addition
I'm a very short time.
Boulcvards. Parks and Fairgrounds
In addition to traffic-ways for tn
carrying Of tho essential traffic o
the city system Of boulevards anC
driveways should be planned whicl
will connect up the various beauty
spots Of the city parks, river front
! and attractive residence sections
so as 10 pTo\lde an opportunity 10
pleasure driving for our own popu
! lation and to serve as splendid ad
vertisement Of our city 10 show vie
.it0rs and prospective citizens whom
We want 10 interest I'm locating II
Tulsa. These boulevards and drive
ways, while serving for the pleasure
J of our own people, will also help I,
build up a splendid civic prid
throughout our city and result in tn
better Improvement Of private a
well as public property. Some cities
notably Kansas City. have found tina