Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-07
NEW TRAFFIC
PLANS INCLUDE
TOWER SYSTEM
Municipal Garages
Also Recommended
by Committee.
RELIEF IS SOUGHT
16POints to Be Covered
in Ordinance Under
Preparation.
RELIEF IS SOUGHT

An ordinance designed to put into
effect the recommendations Of the
committee appointed to study traffic
problems in indianapolis will be pre-
pared by the city legal department
and presented to the city council, &C
cording to Mayor Samuel Lewis
Shank. The recommendations Of
the committee were presented to the
mayor late yesterday.
The call for tower system Of regu-
Iating traffic similar to that In use in
New York. They suggest the erection of
four municipal garages, in which cars
may be parked for a nominal fee, and
!. they go into detail in making suggestions
11or other parking and traffic regulations.
NINE TOWERS IN
CONTESTED AREA.
The committee made the following six
teen recommendations:
81 That a signal system by which
traffic may be moved on the same street
simultaneously, throughout the longest
ed area, be installed, with towers at the
following intersections: Washington and
Alabama streets, Washington and Della
ware streets, Washington and Pennsyl-
vania streets, Washington and Illinois
streets, washington street and Capitol
avenue, Ohio street and Capitol avenue,
Alabama and Ohio streets, Maryland and
Alabama streets, Capitol avenue and
Maryland streets, and at other points
which may prove necessary. The minor
details and plans for working this sys-
TEN should be developed and solved by
the police department.
90. That four municipal garages be
established at as early a time as It is
possible. The said garages to be located
at the following places, or as near there
to as possible Capitol avenue and Ohio
street, Maryland street and Capitol ave-
nue., Maryland and Alabama streets,
Delaware and Ohio streets, establishing
these garages cannot be done at once, but
at least one Of them should be established
in the very near future at the most con-
venient and available point
FLAT CURB PARKING
WITH EXCEPTIONS.
'3 That only fat curb parking be al
lowed, with exceptions as acted below,
IN the following territory: Beginning
with Georgia street on the south. to, and
\ including, New York street on the north
yfrom Capitol avenue on the west, to and
including, Alabama street on the east; on
Capitol avenue from New York to wal
nut street The exceptions to fat curb
parking we recommend, are that on
Washing ton street As degree angle park
ing be allowed on account of the extra
width Of the street, and on the Circle.
straight head-in parking be allowed.
81 That there be parking whatever
allowed in the following places: The east
side Of Illinois street from Washington
street to Pearl street the west side Of
Illinois street from Washington street to
Court street; the east side Of Meridian
street from Washington street to Pearl
street; the west side of Pennsylvania
street from Washington street OF Pearl
street.
20. That there be no parking whatso-
ever allowed between the hours of 80
p. m. and 6 80 p. m. on Meridian street.
from Maryland street to Fan Creek
boulevard.
g. That, where It is possible, vehicles
be permitted to turn to the right at street
intersections, falling in line with traffic
moving in that direction.
TO ENFORCE
PARKING LIMIT,
81: That the present parking limit of
one and one half hours be continued and
rigidly enforced, subject, however to
the additional restrictions as contained
in recommendations four and five.
IS. That vehicles be permittede to turn
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