A ready-made traffic laboratory is provided for officials of the Port of New York Authority by the numerous bridges, tunnels, and ferries which link the boroughs of New York City witTi each other and with New Jersey. Depression and recovery, good and bad weather and the opening of new highways can all be traced by means of traffic patterns. Among the interesting things shown by the records at automobile traffic is that the traAc volume on Wednesday is usually a fair average of the number of vehicles passing during the week from Monday to Friday, while week-end traffic has no apparent relationship to that of the corresponding week. Traffic during the months of May and October is very nearly "average"'far Om entire ye»-
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22103, 27 May 1937, Page 9
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