The Indianapolis times., 1928-05-17
SEEK Scent
levy IN new
CITY PLANNING
Mayor to Ask Maximum
Tax in 1929 Budget
for Streets.
SPEEDWAYS OUTLINED
ArteriaIS Named for Fast
Traffic; Want 100000
for Widening.

The maximum levy of 3 cents for
the city thoroughfare plan will be
asked by Mayor l.. Ert Slack in the
1929 budget.
Slack declared he is strongly in
favor Of carrying out the thorough
fare plan and beautifying the city
as rapidly as funds are available.
Il shave a number of projects in
mind which I would like to see
carried out, but there is no fund
to draw FROM" Slack said. "Syste-
matte and intelligent study Of the
budget is needed"
Since adoption of the city thor
oughfare plan in 1925 by authority
of a special act of the Legislature
the city council and administrations
have failed to create a sufficient re-
serve fund from which improve
ments can be made.
Plan Fifty Years Ahead
Plans for development of the city
streets for fifty years are provided
in the thoroughfare plan.
j. ROLAND Bibbins, Washington,
D. O., expert in traffic and city
planning, spent nine months max
ing the survey and city officials de-
voted two years to study Of the
plans before it finally was adopted.
The plan generally sets out net
nf cfV re rryI,t 81, eI,.
be designated as general traffic
thoroughfares, speedways, boule-
wards and heavy traffic thorough
fares.
Speedways. designated for fast
motor traffic are E. New YorN ST.,
Delaware ST., Capitol Ave. and
Union St.
Must Follow City Plan
General traffic thoroughfares are
such streets as Washington, Massa-
chusetts Ave. Southeastern, Thrift
eth, and Morris Sts. Heavy traffic
routes in the stockyards and fac
tory districts permit huge trucks.
The State law provides that no
| street shall be widened, altered or
changed except in conformity with
the city thoroughfare plan. Ulti-
mately removal Of all logs is pro-
vided.
All plats Of additions within five
miles of the city limits must be sub
mitted to the city plan engineers for
approval. All streets must link up
with proposed streets without jogs
and streets on the section and half
section lines are required to have
ninety feet roadways between prop
erty lines.
Rules County Roads
Jurisdiction of the city plan COM
mission includes about SO per cent
of Marion County and extends
from Hamilton to Johnson Counties,
according to Henry Steeg, plan en-
gineer.
Governor Jackson further ham
pered the thoroughfare plans pro-
gram when he pocket vetoed" the
measure providing that bonds could
be issued for thoroughfares in first
class cities. An effort to the bill in
the next Legislature will be made
by the city.
Removal of the esplanades on
Delaware ST., between Nineteenth
and Twenty-Second Sts., and widen
ing of Meridian st. to a uniform
width from the downtown area to
Thirty Eighth st., are the principal
immediate projects.
100000 for Widening
About 100000 is expected to be
spent in widening W. Sixteenth st.
between Meridian st. and Boule-
ward Pl. from thirty to sixty feet.
Remonstrance of property owners
and delay in making of an assess
ment roll for the elimination of the
hazardous intersection at Sixteenth
and Illinois SITS. temporarily holds
up this project.
A contract has been let for the
widening of w. Forty-Sixth st. be-
tween Meridian st. and Sunset Ave.
from thirty to sixty feet.
The city bears rs per cent of the
widening costs and Butler Uni
versity the remaining 25 per cent
ordinarily assessed against property
owners. 1t will be the principal en-
trance to the Fairview campus.