Evening star., 1929-07-01
234 TRAFFIC LIGHTS
CUT Off HARLAND'S
PROGRAM FOR 1881
Directors Plans to Install
430 Signals Are CurtaiIed
by Commissioners.
SEVEN OF IA MAJOR
PROJECTS ARE sLASHED.
Drastic Reduction Made Necessary
by Decreasing Departments
Budget Estimates.

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Two hundred and thirty-four Of the
43o traffic signals Trafac Director VIII
liam H. Harland planned to- add to
Washington's network Of electric sig
mails In the 1891 fiscal year have been
eliminated from his .fogram by the
t,sa I,ssloners, n.ss, n rs learned today at
The drastic kut in the signal extern
SION progranH 1t was said, was made
necessary ~ the reduction in the
franc Del IpArtment's 1881 budget. More
Snan $40 900 of the $l50,o00 requested
uy Mr Harland for new lights was
1oppetf from his estimates last week.
Ii Additions Had Been Planned.
i Mr.. Harland's original program for
AsS1 contained IA major additions to
the traffic light system, and II in
dependent installations at Isolated I'M
terSectionS throughout the District
Seven Of the II major projects were
removed from the program, and OF the
II independent installations the Com
misSioners allowed IL to remain.
The major installations all provided
for networks of lights through the con-
gested section and along heavily
travelled highways outside Of the bust
eliminated are @ street from Twenty
first street to Rhode Island avenue,
Twenty-second street from Pennsylvanin
avenue to o street, Seventeenth street
from L street to Florida avenue, Twelfth
street from F to streets, H street
northeast from Third to Fourteenth
street, Maryland avenue southwest from
Third to Seventh street, and Connecti-
cut avenue from Macomb to Porter
street. The Commissioners, however,
approved an independent installation at
Connecticut avenue and Macomb street
in lieu Of series Of lights along Con-
necticut avenue from Macomb to Porter
street.
Five Networks In Congested Zone.
Five of the seven networks approved
BY the Commissioners are In the SO
called congestion section. These are
planned for Pennsylvania avenue from
Sixth to Fourteenth street, Pennsyl-
Nania avenue from Eighteenth to Nine
teenth street. r street from Ninth to
Fourteenth street. Ninth street from
+ street to New York avenue, and
Eleventh street from r to street. The
other two projects approved are install
lations on Florida avenue from Sixth
to Seventeenth street. and on Con-
necticut avenue from Davenport 70
The isolated intersection installations
approved by the Commissioners are
those planned for Wisconsin avenue and
Massachusetts, avenue, Connecticut ave-
nue. and Albemarle street, Twenty
eighth and NJ streets, Georgia and Col
orado avenues. New Jersey avenue and
q street, Pennsylvania avenue and Sec
ond street southeast, Pennsylvania ave-
nue. and Eighth street southeast,
Tel vSA
northeast, New York avenue and North
Capitol street and at the four corners
Of Stanton Park.
Lincoln Park Step Eliminated.
Although the Stanton Park installa-
ton was approved, the Commissioners
eliminated q similar installation pro-
posed for Lincoln Park The other iso-
lated installations disapproved were
those planned for Thirty-fifth and M
streets at the approach to Key Bridge,
Peace Monument, First and B streets
northeast, Alaska and Georgia avenues
and Alaska avenue and Sixteenth street
In cutting the trafflc light program,
the Commissioners aimed to retain
particularly the proposed installations
which would relieve trafic officers now
assigned to either full time or rush
hour duty.
OAiuCI tklc OIlBAIlal SC0eQulc, SU 1uli
time officers would have been relieved
and the services Of 20 others could
have been dispensed with during the
rush hours. Despite the extensive re-
duction, however, IS full time and 10
rush hour traffic officers will be re-
Geved under the approved program.
The largest of the approved projects
Is the one planned for Florida avenue
from Sixth to Seventeenth streets. It
provides for 46 signals. The installation
on Pennsylvania avenue from Sixth to
Fourteenth streets will require 40 sig
mails. Eight signals will be set I'D on
Pennsylvania avenue from Eighteenth to
Nineteenth streets, 16 on r street from
Ninth to Fourteenth, 10 on Eleventh
street from F to I streets, 10 on Ninth
street from F street to New York ave-
nue. and on Connecticut avenue
from Davenport to Ellicott streets.
All Of the isolated installations will
require four signals, with the excep-
ton Of those at Stanton Park and
Georgia and Colorado avenues. The
latter will require lights and the
Stanton Park installation IA.