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...hardly be said that Harvard has discovered through these surveys and studies any simple, practical, and economically possible solution for the traffic problem. There is no such "solution". Surveys have shown, however, that few cities even when suffering from the most acute congestion use their existing street area to more than fifty or seventy-five per cent of their potential capacity and efficiency...
Acting as consultant to the Los Angeles Traffic Commission, the Bureau directed a detailed traffic survey of the metropolitan area. On the basis of this thorough inventory of the traffic situation a new traffic code was prepared and put into effect, with the assistance of an intensive educational campaign to familiarize street users with its provisions and relative advantages...
...also proposed that a narrow gauge railway be built over the area following the routes of the principal trunk lines equipped with miniature trains large enough to carry visitors, with stations along the route. The round trip in which the entire country could be seen would take about twenty minutes, covering about one and a half to two miles of riding, which would be a bit faster than walking, according to the proposal...
...could be garnered through the help of State surveys, a number of which are represented on the committee, and by individuals in all parts of the country. These specimens would be placed where they could be easily inspected by any visitor following the bypaths that would ramify through the area covered by the model...
...editor of the Saturday Review of Literature, Yale lecturer, promoter of Avon Old Farms, announced that, sorry as he was to see Pedagog French leave Yale, he was glad to get him at Avon. Said Dr. Canby: "In accepting the Provostship of Avon, he is not leaving the educational area in which good teaching and the sympathetic handling of youth are so important, but shifting his ground...