Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-16
HARLAND PROPOSES
TRAFFIC CHANGES
FIan Seen as Move to Per-
manentIy Abolish Parking
in Downtown Areas.

A prohibition against all parking on
Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets is
recommended by Traffic Director Will
liam H. Harland in series of proposed
amendments to the traffic code which
he drew up today for approval of the
District Commissioners.
The proposed regulation is the first
official move ever made for the per-
manent abolition of parking on any
street in the downtown business sec
ton, and in traffic quarters it is be-
lieved to be the forerunner Of gradual
ban on parking in the restricted area.
The prohibition on the south side of
F street for the one block, Harland
pointed out, will make little change in
existing conditions, since parking is not
now permitted in front Of the National
Press Building and the Palace Theater.
The actual effect of the regulation, he
said. will be to eliminate parking space
for about eight machines in the center
of the block.
A canvass of the business men on the
south side of the block, according to the
traffic director. showed that they are
in favor of the parking restriction.
Other Changes Proposed.
A dozen other changes in the park
ing regulations are proposed in series
OF amendments. The majority of them
are designed primarily to prohibit
parking on the flow side of heavily
travelled arteries during the morning
end afternoon rush hours. and to IA
cilitate the movement of the rush hour
traffic
Two of the principal amendments
will prohibit parking on the north
side Of Rhode Island avenue from Six
teenth street northwest to Twelfth
street northeast from 8 to 9:15 am.
and on the south side from to 6 pm.
Harland said these regulations are in
tended to improve traffic conditions
on Rhode Island avenue, one of the
heaviest Travelled traffic arteries in the
District and on which the volume of
traffic is steadily increasing. The rush
hour parking prohibition, he explained,
will have the effect of increasing the
width of the street by one traffic lane,
thereby facilitating the flow of traffic
and tending to reduce accidents.
In connection with the parking pro-
hibition on Rhode Island avenue the
traffic director also recommended the
adoption of two-hour parking restric-
tion on this same thoroughfare from
Scott Circle to Connecticut avenue be-
tween 8 am. and pm. He also pro-
posed an amendment to forbid parking
at any time around the inside curb at
Iowa Circle, and to restrict parking at
the outer curb during the morning and
afternoon rush hours.
Urges Ban on 10Th Street.
Another street on which Harland
urges prohibition against parking is
Nineteenth street from H street to
Pennsylvania avenue. The regulation
he has drawn forbidS parking on the
west side from 8 to 9:15 am. and on
the east side from to 6 pm. He also
recommends that Nineteenth street
between H street and Pennsylvania
avenue be closed to north-bound traffic
between and 9:15 am. This section
of the street is now closed to north
bound traffic between and 6 pm,
but the traffic director said the re-
striction is no longer desirable due to
the heavy traffic and large number of
street cars operating to Potomac Park
and operating south on Nineteenth
street.
Parking on the south side of c street
southwest from Seventh to Ninth street
would be prohibited at all times under
another proposed regulation. A parking
ban on the south side of Benning road
northeast between Fifteenth and Six
teenth streets, would be partially lifted,
however, under another amendment. In
lieu of a permanent parking prohibition
in this block, Harland recommends that
one-hour parking be permitted from an
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