Evening star., 1928-05-09
1,Q()O+L|GHT TRAFFIC
SYSTEM APPROVED
Amended Program Adopted
by City Heads Calls for
829 More Signals.

Electric traffic signals. approximately
1000 IN number, will be blinking in sl
sections OF Washington when the Traffic
Department completes the installation
Of an extensive traffic light program
just approved by the District Commits
sioners.
This program constitutes revision
as well as an extension of Traffic Di-
rector Harland's original plan for au-
tomatically controlling the Districts
traffc. A network of synchronized sig
nails. augmented by independent inter
section signals, Is contemplated for the
business section in addition to outlying
sections.
The District now has 165 automat-
icaIlv operated traffic signals. The
amended program provides 829 more.
costing approximately s27O,OoO when
installed
Revised Program Due in Fall.
The initial installations under the
revised program will be made IN the
Fall, but it will take a year trafnc au-
thorities estimate, to complete tne pro-
gram.
The new installations, according 70
information given the Commissioners,
will relieve 80 traffic policemen now on
full time duty and II officers doing part
time duty during rush hours. The Com
nissioners also we're advised that the
proposed installations had been ap-
proved by Chairman Simmons OF the
House District subcommittee on appro-
priations and attaches OF the FedefaI
Bureau of Efficiency.
As some of the synchronized systems
are planned on several streets on Whicn
there are traction lines, District ON
cials had feared that the street raliWay
companies would oppose the revised
program. Traction officials, however,
said they would not object 10 the lights
IL they are of a type which do not grove
detrimental to car service. The new
lights, traffic officials announced, are 10
be installed so as to overlap the amber
light with the red and with the green
for the desired number of seconds. Tne
flashing of the signal lights as a IRE
signal also will be eliminated.
System for Carline Streets.
The streets on which car tracks are
located where it is planned To instaH
svnchronized light systems are G. street
from Sixth to Fourteenth. seventh
street from D to Massachusetts, avenue,
Fourteenth street from Harvard 10
Monroe and Connecticut avenue from
Calvert street to Cathedral avenue.
The other synchronized systems follow:
Rhode Island avenue from Iwelttn
to First street. E street from IWeHtn
to North Capitol street, K street from
Ninth TO Eighteenth street, Sixth street
from Louisiana to Rhode Island
avenue. K street and Florida avenue
from Fifth street to Fifteenth and II
streets northeast, Massachusetts, avenue
from Twentieth to Twenty-secono
street. Maryland avenue from Second
10 Fifteenth street northeast. Eighteenth
street from II street to Massachusetts,
avenue. Fifteenth street from Vermont
to Florida avenue, Fifteenth street
from Euclid TO Irving street. Tenth
street from E street 10 Massachusetts,
avenue, Thirteenth street from 8 street
to Massachusetts, avenue, and around
Dupont. Thomas and Iowa circles.
Isolated Installations Projected.
Thirty-eight isolated installations also
are planned at the following interSec-
tions: North Capitol street and Rhode
Island avenue. Rhode Island avenue ana
Fourth street northeast. Connecticut
avenue Mckinley and Morrison streets
New York and New Jersey avenues.
Park road and New Hampshire ave-
nue.. Florida avenue and lexington
place, H and " on North Capitol street
Fourteenth street and Park road. Four
teenth street and Rhode Island avenue
Eighteenth street and Columbia road.
Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh
street southeast. Good Hope road and
Nichols avenue southeast. Rhode Island
avenue and South Dakota avenue north
cast, Eighth and East Capitol streets,
Eighth and II streets northeast, Ver-
mont avenue and U street. Twelfth
and L streets. Kalorama road and Con-
necticut avenue. Georgia and New
Hampshire avenues, Twelfth street and
New York avenue, Fifteenth and II
streets, B street and Delaware avenue
northeast. New Jersey avenue and 3
street southeast, First and B streets
southeast. Wisconsin avenue and Ma
comb street, Thirteenth and Monroe
streets. Thirteenth street and Park
road, Fourteenth street south OF r
street, Fourteenth street north Of 5
street southwest. New Jersey avenue
and Fl street, East Executive and Penn
Sylvania avenues, West Executive and
Pennsylvania avenues, Fourteenth and
B streets southwest Fourteenth and
Water streets southwest. Wisconsin ave-
nue. and NJ street. Vermont avenue and
II street and Eleventh street and New
York avenue