Evening star., 1932-11-06
NEW TRAFFIC LIGHT.
PLANS ANNOUNCED
Pennsylvania Avenue Signals
Are Major Portion Of Van
Duzer Program.

Installation of traffic lights on Penn
sylvania avenue between Sixth and
Fourteenth street constitutes the major
portion of the Fall and Winter traffic
control program, 1t was announced last
night by William A. Van Duzer, director
of the department OF vehicles and
traffic.
Lights also are to be installed at 10
other intersections and signals now IN
operation at % intersections are to be
changed from the progressive to the
newer flexible progressive system OF op-
grafton. In addition, new type push
button signal is to be installed near the
Union Station and at Peace Monu-
ment.
Mr.. Van Duzer said his program al
ready had been approved by the Trafnc
Advisory Council, and he would be reaoy
10 carry it out as soon as the Dlstrlct
Commissioners indorse the expenditures
involved.
Points Planned for Lights.
i intersections on Pennsylvania avenue
at which lights are to be installed are
Sixth seventh, Ninth. Tenth. Twelfth
and probably Fourteenth streets. II 1t :
ultimately decided to place signal az
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue, Mr.. Van Duzer said, 1t may be
necessary to erect one at the same time
ut Fourteenth and E streets.
Other intersections selected Ior HgntS
are TWenty-second street and Pennsyl-
yania avenue, Twenty-second and K
streets, Twenty-second and M streets
and the following at which the demand
type of signals are to be installed:
Massachusetts and New Jersey avenues,
Connecticut avenue and Macomb street,
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Twenty-ninth and M streets. Pennsyl-
vania avenue and M street. Twenty
ninth and K streets and the M street
entrance to Key Bridge. In addition to
these installations Mr.. Van Du1er said
the Traffic Advisory Council has under
eonsidere ion his recommendation for
the erection of lights at Ninth and H
streets. Twelfth and streets. First
street and Florida avenue, North Capitol
street and New York avenue, Sixth
street and Maryland avenue southwest,
Seventeenth and I streets, Seventeenth
and r streets, Seventeenth and Q
streets and Fourteenth and Euclid
streets.
Mr.. Van Duzer explained that the
new-type, push-button lights to be
erected at Peace Monument and near
the Union Station would be designed
solely for the convenience OF pedes-
trians. These lights, he said. will flash
green until pedestrian who wants to
cross the roadway pushes button,
which win automatically turn on the
red signal, stopping all vehicular traffic
for predetermined period. The Union
Station light is to be erected at the
Intersection OF Delaware avenue and E
street.
Scene Of Many Crashes
All of the intersections at which new
lights are to be installed, Mr.. Van
Duzer said. have been the scene of
numerous traffic accidents, some OF
which have resulted fatally to the VIC
TINS. In addition, he said. traffic
count showed the number Of vehicles
passing these points exceeded 1000 an
hour.
The % intersections where existing
iiShts are to be placed on the flexible
progressive system of operation are on
upper Sixteenth street, from Euclid to
Newton streets; Connecticut avenue,
from Calvert street to Cathedral ave-
nue.: Sixth street. from M to @ streets:
upper Fourteenth street. from Harvard
to- Monroe streets. and Fourteenth
street, from B to Water streets. The
change on the upper Sixteenth street
lights also will involve the network OF
signals on Fifteenth street, from Euclid
street to Columbia road.
Isolated intersection lights at six
points. under the new program, are to
be- changed from the fixed to the de-
mand type These signals are located
at Twelfth street and Rhode Island
avenue northeast, Connecticut avenue
and California street, Connecticut ave
nue. and Albermarle street, Rhode
Island and South Dakota avenues, Con-
necticut avenue and Kalorama road
and Good Hope road and Nichols
avenue southeast.