THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
NEW YORK'S TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
Narrow Streets-Tall Buildings.
Special Article by Israel Ktoin.)
HENRY FORD "DISPOSES."
·MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
A London motor correspondent writes that the Ford Company's adoption of the British Dunlop pattern woll-baso rim has put tho cat among the tyro trade pigeons. One of the largest European tyro makora la onotimo strong ad- vocato of the old boadod-edgo type) has now officially announo- Tho narrow strepts of Now! E. P.Goodrich, traffic authority, ed his capitulation and his York, most congested city in the oatimaton that New York is losing adoption of the wired-odge, and U.S.A., point a lesson to other $1,000,000 a day due to traffic wellbaso principle in tyre and communition on wisdom of plan-congestion, and that it would cost rim manufacturo. London motor ning possible city growth yours billions in reconstruction to avoid trade eircles are all agog with ahead of time and of controlling this loss in the futuro. Elevated the news. its expansion in the future.
and surface car lines would have| In this city, more than olsa, to be abandoned, two and, three whore, two opposites have met to tiers of roadways would have to the detriment of traffic-the.nar-be built, tunnels would have to be
THIS WEEK'S STORY.
-"Bolf-starter ?" demanded the potential buyer..........
“No, šir,” replied the salesmanj "but-"
"Water-cooled, of course?"
No, six but "Four wheel brakes, at least "Er-no, but-"
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927.
BUSES V. TRAMS.
LONDON TRAFFIC, The motor bus, by proving that it can transport masses of people and give them convinient service, has earned its right to existence, says Mr. Alfred H. Swayne, vica president of the Genoral Motors Corporation.
CLOSED CARS POPULAR
The production of closed cars amounted to 74 per oopt. of the entire automobile production of the United States for 1926. This record was made despite the popularity of the roadster and
BOYS TOO CARELESS
During 1026 hundreds of boys. autos as a result of riding bioy-- have been accidentally killed by clos, says Mr. Albert W. Whitney. vice president of the National Safety Council.
MORE CANADIAN CARS.
"What about lubrication ?" -
open sport touring models. Dry Bump, sir," said the
The progress of the bus in salesman more cheerfully.
"The convenience of personal "Good," pronounced the per- metropolitan London shows the transportation has changed the sistent оло, turning away,value of this mode of transporta- desires of people with respect to The first 10 months' automobile sumpin" accomplished, sumpin' tion. In 1924 all of the tramways public transportation," Mr. production in Canada is registered done, anyhow !"
In metropolitain London carrled Swayne points out. "Poople live as 187,536 vehicles, valued at 968,000,000 passengers as coming off the car lines want service $114,450.116. Thia is compared MUST SLOW UP.
pared to 1,484,000,000 carried by closer to their doors than it is with a similar period last year buses.
possible for rail lines to give. when 142,567 vahielos, valued at When a motorist is blinded by
In 1925 the' trafoways carried "Automotive men with whom I $92,434,978, were manufactured. the headlights of an approaching 978,000,000 passengers and the am associated believe that a pro-
The European Club at Shillong-
row street and the tall sky-dug and, most costly of all, build. Until our new "boy" has had automobile he is locally required buses 1,671,000,000. The tram per and scientific co-ordination of i
ings would have to be sliced off a chanco. of tosting it, we shall to slow up, according to many ways' passenger ist increased electric railway and motor bus (Assam) has been completely: and arcaded to make room for the not believe that the newly invent..[court decisions throughout the only 1.1 per cent, while the bus is the only solution for our local burned down, the loss being esti-
sorapers,
Some streetsindiantown New York Hike Nassau. Street shunten here, have become so congested with pedestrians u busy hours, that automobiles are on- tirely exclude then and per- mitted only one-way thorough- fore at other times.
For the width of the streole prosent city administrators can't
increasing traffic.
While he estimates the pro- sence of about 835,000 vehicles in Now York by 1930, his curvo of figures gous sharply up until by 1960, he estimates New York's traffic to run up to 2,100,000 vehicles in the entira state to-day.i
Since automobilos will increase] olsewhere as fast as they will ini New York, a jump of almost 300 per cent. in their number would cause considerable traffic difficul- tios in many cities of the country. Goodrich figuras this jump on the comtemplated basis of five per- sons to each motor vehicle.
THREE PREVENTATIVES.
To avoid this possibility of con- gestion he, as well as most other! traffic authorities, points to three proventatives.
First is the limitation in height of future buildings, to conform with the width of streets they face.
Second is the provision of adol pate platting and zoning laws, for future spread of the city.
Third is the planning of futuro wide arterial highways.
Lack of these three is what caused prosent congestion, it is said. Even the adoption of these principles has to be such as to allow for flexibility in the future, A strook that may appear ridicu.!
be blamed. But other cities are lously wide loday may turn out
being warned against imitating to be sorrowfally narrow tomor-
New York in the construction of row.
skyscrapers,
Hore are veritable cities in
themselves, sticking up into the
sky alongside streets usually too ACCIDENTS INCREASE.
narrow to handle the ordinary
run of traffic. They're built in the
hearts of cities, where street wers Grade crossing accidents aro laid out years ago without the on the increase in the United knowledge or forethought of States in spite of safety schemos future possibilities.
and crossing elimination work being done in many sections, 30- cording to a summary of reports of all the large railroad lines of the country
MILLION LOST DAILY. The result is a situation like New York's in many other cities striving to become great
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DO NOT USE IMITATIONS.
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