Evening star., 1925-08-02
SEES BOULEVARDS
SPEED Up TRAFFIC
EIdridge Declares Designa-
tion. of 29 Streets Will
Ease Traffic Ills.
A marked improvement in the move.

A marked improvement in the move
ment OF traf.lc after drivers have be
come accustomed to the boulevard
stop system was predicted last night
10y Traffic Director Eldridge.
Twenty-nine main arteries in al
sections OF the city were officially
designated boulevard highways by the
traffic director yesterday afternoon
which means that all vehicles must
stop before crossing them.
The big white stop" signs have
been painted at the intersections along
five or six of thasA houlevards for
more than a week ant> Sainters will
continue as rapidly as possible to
paint the warning on all of the streets
on the boulevard list.
s6l6ridgc Issues Warning.
lAr Eldridge explained last night
that where the signs have been
painted motorists must begin at once
TO stop before crossing. On those
bouleVardS which the painters have
not vet had time to mark, drivers
will not be held if they fail to stop,
Mr. Eldridge said.
Col. l.. c. Moller, engineer in the
traffic Office, estimated last night 1t
would take more than a week to COM
plete the painting of the stop sign at
every intersection along all of the
boulevards.
1t was decided by the Commission
ers yesterday that a Today advertise
ment is not necessary before making
a boulevard highway effective, which
means that the rule is in effect as
soon as the sign has been painted on
the street.
Director Eldridge emphasized the
statement again last night that the
speed limit has not been changed on
the boulevards. After motorists have
become thoroughly familiar with the
stop system a special speed limit will
he fixed for certain sections of the
Boulevard streets and when that ac-
ton is taken signs will be erected on
the lamp posts indicating where the
higher speed zone begins and where
it ends.
Speed 22 Miles for Present.
Until those signs are erected, Mr..
Eldridge said, the speed limit will re-
main the same for boulevards as on
all other streets. The traffic director
has stated that a special speed limit
for boulevards will not be authorized
until there is full compliance with the
stop signs.
The complete list of streets desig-
mated by Mr.. Eldridge as boulevard
highways follows:
MaSSa chuSetts avenue from Wis
consin avenue to Ninth street north
west. and from Sixth northwest to
Eleventh street northeast, including
all sides OF stanton Square.
Wisconsin avenue, Massachusetts
avenue to the District line.
Connecticut avenue, s street TO
Chevy Chase Circle.
Vermont avenue, X street to Florida
avenue.
Sherman avenue, Florida avenue to
Park road
New Hampshire avenue, Park road
TO Grant Circle.
Georgia avenue, New Hampshire
avenue to the District line.
Alaska avenue, Sixteenth street to
Georgia avenue.
Rhode Island avenue. from Con-
necticut avenue northwest to South
Dakota avenue northeast.
South Dakota avenue, from Rhode
Island avenue to Bladensburg road.
Bladensburg road. from Fifteenth
and II northeast to the District line.
Maryland avenue, from Fifteenth
and II northeast to First street north.
east.
HennSylNanla avenue southeast,
from Second street to Alabama ave.
nue..
Alabama avenue, from Pennsylvania
avenue southeast to the District line
Pennsylvania avenue northwest
from Twenty-second street to M street
Florida avenue, from Twenty-sec-
ond street TO Connecticut avenue and
from Sherman avenue to Vermont
avenue.
New York avenue, from Sixth to
Seventh street
Good Hope road, from Nichols ave-
nue. to Naylor road.
Naylor road, from Good Hope road
to the District line.
NJ street northwest, from Pennsyl-
vania avenue to Key Bridge
u street northwest, from Twenty
second street to Wisconsin avenue.
Sixth street, from d street north
west to Rhode Island avenue.
Tenth street northwest, from G.
street to Vermont avenue.
sixteenth street, from H street to
Alaska avenue.
Eighteenth street, from Pennsylya-
mia avenue to Columbia road.
Calvert street, from Columbia road
10 Connecticut avenue
TWenty-Second street northwest
from Virginia avenue to Massachu-
SSttS avenue.
Eleventh street southeast, from An.
acostia Bridge to Massachusetts ave.
nue..
Mount Vernon place, from Seventh
TO Ninth street.
Sees Traffic Expedited.
Il am confident the boulevard stop
system not only will expedite the
movement of traffic, but that it will
materially reduce accidents" Mr.. Ed.
ridge declared
The streets selected as boulevards
We're chosen after a careful study OF
the natural flow of traffic in order to
create direct lanes through the city.
In the case of Sixteenth street the
stop signs will only be painted on the
pavement at intersections north of
Newton street. From Newton street
soutn TO n the automatic signal lights
VIII be installed in the near future.
The object of naming one block of
New York avenue a boulevard. be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets
northwest. was to induce through
traffic on Massachusetts avenue to go
north on Sixth street and thence
through New York avenue to Mt,
Vernon place.
Inc only question now remaining
to be settled is whether the street
cars also should stop before crossing a
boulevard, and this problem will be
disposed of after the hearing to be
granted the railway companies by the
Utilities Commission on Tuesday,
August II.
BILLBOARD FOUNDER DIES