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has ordered the install
lation of $40 more traffic lights
comprising l55 intersections
many of which will be in the con.
geSted areas.
Bids were let the latter part O
last week with the Grouse Hind;
Co, the General Electric, the Har.
rlngton-Seaberg Co. and the
American Gas Accumulation Co
To the CrouSe-HindS the bid fol
brackets was let. the control ap-
paratuS to the General Electric
the independent timers to the
Harrington-Seaberg. and the
manual transfer switches to the
American Gas Accumulation.
All orders are made to have de-
liverieS within the next 100 work
ing days. Installation will be
made Immediately thereafter.
Streets Designated.
Among the designated streets
are Rhode Island avenue north
west. from Iowa Circle to Fourth
street northeast; E street, Twelfth
to North Capitol street northwest;
K street, Ninth to Eighteenth
street northwest: Sixth street.
Louisiana avenue to Rhode Is
land avenue northwest: X street
and Florida avenue. Fifth to Fiji
teenth and H streets northeast:
Massachusetts, avenue, Fifth to
New Jersey avenue northwest:
Massachusetts avenue, Twentieth
TO Twenty-Second northwest: ::
Maryland avenue, Second street
to Fifteenth street northeast:
Eighteenth street, H street to
Massachusetts, avenue northwest; .;
Connecticut avenue, Mckinley
and Morrison streets northwest;
Fifteenth street, Vermont avenue
to Florida avenue northwest;
Fifteenth street, Euclid to Irving
street northwest; Tenth street, E
street to Massachusetts, avenue
northwest, and Thirteenth street,
E street to Massachusetts, avenue
At the following isolated inter-
sections automatic and manual
control will be installed: Connec-
ticut avenue. S street and Florida
avenue northwest; Park Road and
New Hampshire avenue north
west: H and North Capitol streets;
Fourteenth street and Park road
northwest; Rhode Island avenue
and Fourteenth street northwest:
Eighteenth street and Columbia
road northwest; Good Hope road
and Nichols avenue southeast;
Eighth and H streets northeast;
Vermont avenue and u street
northwest; Twelfth and L streets
northwest; Kalorama road and
Connecticut avenue northwest;
Georgia avenue and New Hamp-
shire avenue northwest; Twenty
second and @ streets northwest;
Twenty-second and p streets
northwest; Twelfth street and
New York avenue northwest; and
Fifteenth and H streets north
west.
Lights have already been placed
at several Of the above mentioned
intersections. Plans for addition
al lights are being mapped out at
the Traffic Bureau. Mr.. Harland
is ANXIOUS TO proceed slowly in the
matter of placing signals in the
very congested centers. While
the director of traffic believes in
the efficacy of signals at these
places, he is reluctant to have too
many installed until it can be as
certained how controls in these
areas work out.
Boulevard Proposed.
After receiving numerous COM
plants as to the number of stop
signs erected on the croSs-town
streets in the upper section of the
northwest, Mr.. Harland is work
ing on a plan TO have a cross
town boulevard with traffic lights
run from the neighborhood of
Sheridan Circle to Rhode Island
avenue. Either r or @ street
would work out well, Mr.. Harland
believes, with the selection prob
ably falling to @ street. This, in
his opinion, would provide suffi-
cient feeder TO residents of that
section and would not interfere
with the present system.
According 10 these plans the
National Capital is soon TO be-
come traffic light-controlled
city. AS the erection of traffic
lights has proven a source of in
creased safety, both TO motorists
and pedestrians alike, and in
other cities as well as in Wash
ington, it is to be hoped that this
city viii eventually become the
safest Of all large cities. Ger
tainly 1t Is step in the right di-
rection and one in line with all
modern movements Of today.
There are still many motorists
who dislike traffic lights, but this
opinion Is only one Of extreme
selfishness. The class Of this kind
is OF the group that complains
they are constantly slowed up by
the lights. II is usually this class
that are recklessly bent. and,
therefore, the class that should
be slowed up.
The assistant director Of traffic,
M. o. Eldridge, calls particular at
tention 10 the fragrant violation
Of motorists In starting across in
tergectionS the minute the yellow
caution sign flashes. Mfr. Eldridge
points out that this sign is for the
nlotorist 10 get ready 10 go, and
not 10 dart across the street be-
fore the green light appears. Mr..
EIdridge has observed that the
majority Of motorists on the
streets today fail TO obey this
regulation. II pending accidents
do not cause the motorists to
stop this practice. arrests by
the police will, Mr. Eldridge an
nounceG. This announcement is
70 be commended. Drivers should
not proceed on the yellow signal
any more than they should on the
RED light.
Al the Traffic Bureau today