NOVEL TRAFFIC CONTROL.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 5

NOVEL TRAFFIC CONTROL.

]W York's Fifth Avenue carries probably more vehicular traffic than any other thoroughfare in the world, and it has been found, that the ordinal method of control, at intersections by policemen was insufficient. An experiment is now being made with a system of signals displayed from towers at the various intersections, to which both vehicular and pedestrian traffic must be obedient. The same signal is given simultaneously at each crossing. Under the old system # the traffic on Fifth avenue and- side-streets was handled by ft large number of policemen, each controlling his; particular intersection according to ment - Under the present ariangement the entire traffic stream is controlled as a single unit., TAjonjthe avenue starts as > « mt > ™, - t * certain length of time, and IS tnen stopped, giving an. opportunity for traffic on ffie side-streets, which has accumulated while traffic moying. on the avenue, to cross Bnison the various intersections. 1 . .. of all traffic movements _is™tually clocklike—and certainly effic • deed, by -actual test under old condi T tions i£ was found-that a ve 1 einquired as long as 40 ceed on Fifth Avenue from to 34th street, or in ® r s^tion- a mere m at|er of a mil the annoying and costly deW hasi dnced by more than 60 ? e ' , 'j ■ system has been beyo doubt, and has accomplished _ the way of eliminating annoying costly delay.