Evening star., 1933-12-17
EVENTS OF INTEREST
IN THE MOTOR WORLD
Signal Lights, One-Way Streets and 1884
License Tags Occupy Thoughts
of Traffic Director.

/ that one exhibitors demonstration may
not conflict with another's, and lectures
must be given in tone not objection
able to surrounding exhibitors. Cars
may carry price cards on windshield or
license bracket, with lettering not more
than l inch in height, and approved
| souvenirs may be distributed by ex-
! hibitorS.
Uniformity Provided.
| For uniformity, and in order to avoid
coiorS claShing, solid color carpets will
be provided for each floor by the man
agement, and no rugs or other floor
covering permitted.
At New York, the color scheme will
be as follows: Main f1oor-Silver with
black, red-and-blue trim; carpet, wine
color. Second floor-Buff with orange,
black and silver trim; carpet, green.
For the third floor Commercial We
hicles), buff walls with rose -and-silver
trims carpet, blue Accessories sec
tion-Buff, with blue-and-orange trim;
carpet, dark brown.
Exhibitors are urged to have what
ever is colorful in their exhibits har-
moniZe with the general color scheme
of the floor.
Cars to be exhibited at New York
are as follows: First fioor-Buick,
Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Contin-
entail. De Soto, Dodge, Graham, Hud-
son. Hupmobile, La Sale, Oldsmobile,
Plymouth, Pontiac, Studebaker and
Terraplane- Second fioor-Auburn.
Chevrolet, Franklin, Lincoln, Nash,
Packard, Pierce Arrow, REQ and Stutz.
Paid by Time Savings.
Savings of vehicle time, due to the
construction of the High Level Viaduct,
3.7-mile highway, built at a cost
of $19.300,000, between Newark and
Jersey City, N. j.. to serve the Holland
Tunnel entering New York City, amounts
to as much as &c million vehicle min
utes per year. This estimate of time
saving was one of the results of traffic
studies made by the Bureau of Public
Roads, United States Department of
Agriculture. as reported by L. S. Tuttle.
recent annual meeting 'G''1tf OF the I High sfe
way Research Board of the National
Research Council in this city.
Field studies by cooperating traffic
and the New Jersey Highway Com
mission show the average daily traffic
on the viaduCt to vary from 10000 to
$4,000 vehicles a day. Valuing a We
hicle-a-minute at cents. the per
cent interest charge on the cost of the
structure is equaled by the savings of
highway vehicle time. Among the addi-
tional benefits are the travel distance
saved by shortening the road and relief
from traffic congestion.
The route used before the viaduct
was built was AZ miles long. with
two drawbridges that frequently de-
layed traffic. The viaduct route is
81 miles long. provides for two
lines of traffic in each direction. has
no highway intersections at grade, and
traffic is not delayed by lifted draw
bridges Traffic was studied on the old
route before the new one was opened
and then on the new route. and the
time savings of the rev route were
determined
To estimate the vehicle time saved
by the viaduct. the average trip time
was measured between the same points
on each route. A method of observing
the last four digits of vehicle license
numbers was used, the vehicle numbers
at both ends of the route being noted.
A card for each minute of observation
time. on which we're listed the license
numbers of all passing vehicles, facili-
tated the work
The vehicle minutes saved each year
because of the improvement of the
viaduct route, according to the findings
of the traffic survey, are estimated at
the following minimums: Passenger
cars, 81, AS 900: light trucks, 4,883, 900,
and heavy trucks, 3,827,000