Evening Star Newspaper, September 17, 1925, Page 45

MILLIONS AR LOST INTRAFFIC DELAYS, Highway Body’s Survey Shows, High Cost of Clumsy Handling in Cities. America pays $2,000,000,000 a year — per cay of $20 a year for every individual in the nation—in loss of life, accidents, loss of time through depreciated real estate 1d in many other ways of properly developed lities and their control, These are the conclusions reached by the committee on metropolitan fa- cilities of the national conference on street and highway safety. The final -y Hoover for trans- mittal to the second conference to be held during the coming Winter. Fred- erfe A. Delano, president of the Ameri- . can Civic Association and a member of the regional planning committee for New York City, is chairman of the committee. Nearby Land Values Doubled. Real estate values in Arlington County, Va., and surrounding terri- tory have been enhanced as much as 100 per cent and more in ne cases by improved street and highway facil- ities, according to information given to the committee. Steps taken- to bring about this result in nearby"Vir- ginia include authorization for the construction of the Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River and plans for highway development in nearby s at Laurel during at a standstill for of two miles because of at the Hyattsville The money los: bout $600,000,000 in 1923 due t ) fatal and 678.- 000 non-fatal nd highway ac- cidents will be greatly exceeded by the 1924 figures, the committee esti- mated. The committee said, how- ever, that the loss due to accidents is only a small portion of the actual economic loss due to inadequacy of streets and highways to accommodate automobile traffic. Congestion Cpstly. Data gathered in a large number of cities indicate clearly that a defi- nite money loss due to congestion and other factors can be calculated with some accuracy. Detailed traffic tallies in Worcester, Mass., indicated that " congestion cost the city $35,000 a day. Cincinnati paid $100,000 a day for Able Men on Board. F. A. Delano, president, American|of America; E. S. Higgins, general|mer T. Stevens, general manager, c Association: J. H. Alexander,|manager, Yellow Cab Co., Philadel- |Charles A. Stevens & Bros., Chicago, 2 Cle\;‘elnnd Railway Co.: | phia; John ldhlder mm;ugar clvic de- [IIL; F. L. Swetland, general manager, Harland Bartholomew, consulting | velopment department, Chamber of |the Swetland Co.; Charles P. Tol- : engineer; Prof. Arthur H. Blanchard. | Commerce of the United States: Al-|man, consulting engineer, New York| The radio conference, it wWas|gineers, which includes in its mem. | o3 Oy, BUreau of Standards; member. | Ji professor of higshway engineering and | van Macauley, president, Packard|City: Harvey M. Toy, chief,| learned today, will convene imme- | bership more than 200 electrical en. v transport, University of [ Motor Car Co.; Thomas H. MacDon- | Board of Highway Commissioners, diately after Chief Supervisor Terrell | gineers of the District of Columblia, | hurst; student activities, Milton M. Mack Trucks, Inc.; Louis Brownlow, | Public Roads; Col. L returns to Washington from the con. [Tet at the Cosmos Club Tuesday | Flanders of the Bliss Electrical School; city manager, Knoxville, Tenn.; Har- | sistant director of Qmmo Washing- | engineer, State Transit Commission, | ference of the International Tele- old S. Buttenheim, editor, the Amer- | ton, D. C.; Albert G. Metz, editor Motor | New York City: Harold similar conditions, while in the loop district of Chicago it was estimated parking of cars cost the community $200,000 a day. The loss from con- gestion in the New York City region was fixed at about $1,000,000 a day. In Philadelphia delays in operation of a fleet of 863 taxicabs due to congestion amounted to 9.5 per cent of the work- ing time of the cabs—§$2.50 per day per vehicle. As a further instance of cost to com- munities, reports were received as to the savings possible through traffic po- lice signal systems and other regula- tion methods. From Chicago it was reported that a traffic control signal system in the loop district might save $17,500 and relieve half of the 170 po- licemen now required there. Syracuse, N. Y., it was reported, is now install- ing a traffic control signal system which, when completed; will save $30,- 000 a year. Reports are being received from many cities in other parts of the * country regarding the installation of such control systems and will be in- corporated in the final report of the committee. Left Turn Expensive. Other factors in delays, according to reports received by the committee, are wrong turns, poor street name signs and badly marked and maintained de- tours. As an instance, the abolition of all turns in Woodward avenue, in the downtown section of Detroit, has ma- terially reduced accidents and_ expe- dited traffic in Newark, N. J., before the abolition of the left-hand turn at Market and Broad streets, 10 per cent of vehicles making the left-hand turn caused 40 per cent of the delay ex- perienced. In addition to making a study of the cost of inadequate traffic facilities, the * committee on metropolitan traffic fa- cilities will develop specific and prac- tical schemes to meet present existing conditions. 1In its final report to the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety it will formulate gen- Mlp of thc only city In America that doesn’t eat more Oh Henry! than any other candy} . Nearly a million bars ] Ever taste that mu: ‘!’:-—I 10c¢ a bar everybody every doy eat POST’S BRAN - FLAKES as an ounce of pteventlca Now You'll like bran THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1925. eral principles as a gulde for a traffic |ican City; Prof. Ernst Freund, Uni-| Transport; A. Heath Onthank, chlet,| West, chairman, iy t'he"‘ "‘;'" “10 “ndedmk;;,o v:"rf“y of flalcago; lsrnestNa Gyood]; Division of Domestic Commerce, De- :;;"vlce Cémr‘nlsuk‘m: Fr)l‘n: c.R wm:iz, o various plans and expedi-| rich, consulting engineer, New York | partment of Commerce, and Percy |editor, Engineering News-Record; ents \\'hh“h hr:‘\!'e {)ro\:d successtul in | City; Kalne‘ 8. Gr:en. plreulclem, Auto- |Owen, chief, Automotive Division, De- | Mrs. Arthur V. Watkins, - National PLAN SEASDN ACTWIT'ES entation of eight technical papers by [ The man who ghot and killed himsel? a gencral accldent reduction program [mobile Clu» of Philadelphia; Dr. John | partment of Commerce. S ia e In different cities. The members of the | M. Gries, chief, Division of Building| George A. Quinlan, superintendent|Col. W. J. Wilgus, consulting engi- - | Bolding of a prize paper contest for ; v ook County, Il.s G. J. | neer, New York City, and Harold R, | W ~ebington Section of Organiza merce; D 'W. Helt, grand president, | Ray, chief engineer, Delaware, Lack- | Young National Retail Dry Goods and Housing, Department of Com- |of highways, Cook County, IIL; G. Brotherhood of Rallway Signalmen|awanna and Western Railroad; El- |Association. J. Brosseau, president, |ald, chief, United sutea Bureau of | California; Edward W. Tree, editor, Moller, as- [ Good Roads; D. L. Turner, consulting E.| graph Union. Maryland, waoic| ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS Congress of Parents and Teachers; Radio Conference Soon Due. local chapter, outlined the Fall and student paper and the best paper ‘Winter Program. from the general membership. Activities of the section are under The Washington section of the [the direction of the following commit- American Institute of Electrical En. |¢es: Meetings and papers, Dr. M. G. ship, D. S. Wegg of the Department of Commerce; attendance, Roland White- Studebake and planned activities for the coming | sociability and refreshments, W. A. E. season. Doying of the Panama Canal. L. E. A. F. E. Horn, chairman of the ReZd Igslecremy.nl 2 G America Will N ot Stop Seeking Conquest of the Air ESPITE THE LOSS of the giant dirigible Shenandoah with its appalling loss of lives, despite the failure of the naval seaplane to complete its non-stop flight to Honolulu, with the final and dramatic rescue of the crew, “Americans are not going to give up the task of con- quering the air,” insists the Buffalo Evening Post, and this re- solve finds endorsement in many editorial utterances throughout the country. : “It is not the American way togive up in the face of defeat,” declares the Savannah News, which is confident that the fail- ure of the Pacific flight and the loss of the big airship will not prevent our Government from continuing its experiments with both heavier-than-air and lighter-than-air flying ma- chines. The men who fell to death with the Shenandoah, the Albany Evening News reminds us, “believed in the future of aerial navigation, were willing to risk their lives in pioneer- ing, and would not have America say ‘stop.”” The Atlanta Journal declares that, “sacrifice for a ‘vision splendid’ is never unavailing, and the blood of those who fall in battle for the skyways will become in truth the seed of ultimate victory.” But while public opinion, as reflected in the press does not seem in a mood to approve any panicky retreat from the field of aviation, neither does it seem content to ignore the prob- lems raised by the Shenandoah disaster. The demand for a full investigation of our naval and military air policy has been ~ brought to a head by Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service, who invited courtmartial by his sensational charges against the War and Navy Depart- ments. It is not only in this country that our experiments in avia- tion are exciting intense interest, for the Shenandoah disaster created almost as great a sensation in Europe as in the United States. - In this week’s “Literary Digest” you will be able to under- stand the trend of American public opinion on the subject, vou will sense the problems that have arisen and which will undoubtedly come before Congress. The story as told in “The Digest” this week makes vastly entertammg reading. A British Thrust at American Religion A slam at American re]lgmn by The Church Trmes, the lesdmg Ang]o- Catholic™ organ of the Church of England in London, 1s keenly resented by The Living Church (Milwaukee, Wis.,) recognized as representatwe of the ngh-Church wmg of the Protestant prscopa] Church in the United States. T’le Churc]z Times in a two-column edltonal charactenzcs Amencan relxg- ion as Puritanism that has allied itself with Capltahsm “This American Puritanism,” we read, "‘with its Calvinistic tradition and Methodist emo- tionalism, has probably been less affected than any other form of Christi- anity by modern i1deas. Like the old Calvinists it still holds that God is chiefly glorified by hard work and money-getting, and that to restrain social pleasure 1s a sacred duty.” Read both sides of the controversy in this week's issue of ' The thcrary Digest.” Here Are Some of the Other Vital News Stories in The Literary Digest for September 19th On Sale To-day at All News-stands, 10c Murderous Maniacs at Large As the Coal People See the Strike German Recovery Under the - First Year of the Dawes Plan The Man Behind Soviet Diplomacy The Oily Serpent in Mosul’s Eden As Europe Sees Our Tourists The Handwriting on Industry’s Wall The Fall of the House of Stinnes Oregon’s Wooden Railroads “America First” Women as Chauffeurs The Negro as an Artist The Babbitts Are Boiling —1In Lewd Literature Teachers as Peacemakers The Man Who Wears a Swarm of Bees in His Hat The “Charleston” Is Here to Stay! 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