Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1950 — Page 4

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

Indianapolis traffic jams are nothing new. - And traffic surveys ‘in the city are likewise not new.

affic Plan Proposed ‘Most Visionary’ Solution Drafted 5 Years Ago After Comprehensive Study

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~ While the city has had one after another, little has been done. | yerigian st, is But five years ago, the city launched its most ambitious’ i —

traffic survey to date, with the co-operation of the State

‘Highway Commission. ~ Today the plan lies gather-|

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of the highway commission. | Trafic experts and highway, engineers still talk of -the old] traffic plan with a gleam in their} eves. They regarded it as the * “most visionary” traffic plan in the city's history. 40-Man Survey Ray Bower, chief engineer of the state, put 40 men on the problem of licking the city's traffic jams. He was assisted by Noble] Hollister, of the City Planning! Commission, and other traffic experts. The men undertook one of the most comprehensive traffic sursveys performed in the nation, sampling 10 per cent of the entire cit

Out of the survey grew a city~ state plan designed to unsnarl Indianapolis traffic by creating oneway highways through the city. For example, the men proposed that the two streets flanking Meridian St. be made completely one way-Illinois St. running south

State highway officials and city authorities’ regret that was done to follow through with the original plan. " A movement to resurrect the| tplan 1s being contemplated by| several traffic engineers in thei . highway department, but admit it is in

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and Pennsylvania St. running porth, A similar plan was outlined for Washington S8t., noting that extreme steps would be.needed to create one-way flanking streets. In rounding up the traffic facts, men were stationed at more than 30 control points

of traffic.

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