Has.
Why don't you act grown up
the own
age old on stuff you both ought to be ashamed of yourselves why
don't you act like grown up
and you know why all of you stop where you are
there that is better. Of course if you'd rather not listen.
Go ahead just step on the gas take off. Lets you can't go forward.
So why not go back from this see how you got into this mess in the first place
or Merlot.
I mean all the way back we might get to the bottom of things we've got to go back
to the beginning of course there were no traffic problems
but in time there were plenty of others clearing.
Building the first houses near a crossroad in the church in the mills.
These were gradually connected by September
and force trails as the settlement grew into a village as became roads for wagons
and carriages that commerce and industry thrived the people sought out easier
and faster ways of moving about.
But as the city continued accreditation was stirring the imagination of the daring
few who could afford it
but the automobile just got better and better.
Pretty soon it wasn't just a curator or a convenience.
It became part of the American standard of living
the kind of imagine what this country would be like without all
it would be impossible to live in many parts of the country without them for
business or for travel or recreation or vacation.
There's nothing like a car
fifty million Americans can't be wrong
but millions of cars take up a lot of room especially
when too many of them are in the same place at the same time traffic congestion.
Gets worse and worse because more and more while we go about our daily work.
Take this modern office buildings.
If all the people in the building drove their cars to work the parking area
required would be greater than the floor space of the building itself
city planners
and traffic engineers have been trying valiantly to make more space available for
traffic handling but the increasing number of cars requires wider streets
and more off street parking lots in many cases than you will the land must be
sacrificed to the traffic monster
but these changes only bring more cars into already overcrowded downtown streets
and the traffic situation becomes more acute than aggravating than it ever was
before the fight in our streets
and invite more traffic more freeways
more cars
and so the cycle go for
all the time and money spent.
But still it brings us in the city convenience
safety pleasure.
We've been trying to move traffic when the basic intent is to move people.
It's the objective in every community to move people to factories
and offices to church to schools to a playground
and home again the growing number of people must buy some practical means into the
area where they work shop and play most cars carry only one
or two people within this block fifty people in forty cars.
No wonder we have traffic congestion.
Now here's a practical approach public transit.
Let's see how it helps solve our problems a motor bus can carry as many people as
all the cars
that can be jammed into a city block one trolley goes provides enough transportation
per trip to eliminate the need for as many as fifty parking spaces in a downtown
area a modern street car with its large carrying capacity
and of enough traffic each day to remove hundreds of cars from heavily congested
downtown area a four track system of this
can carry one hundred thousand people per hour in each direction to do the same job
with automobiles would require more than one hundred lanes of highway over a half
mile wide
and costing many times more than the entire rapid transit system fifty
lanes of carrying capacity can be added to a freeway by building a two track rapid
transit line down the center. Let's take a.
Sir look at our transit system
so far as most of us are concerned transit is dropping a token into a farebox
these tokens all add up to one thing it's faster safer more
dependable ride for you.
Who do you live where do you want to go. What time.
How many of you at a time these questions have all been studied by your transit
company.
Your arrival at work must be time vehicles must be made available fresh Piri
you are able to transfer to other points.
Wherever trends that separate
or must carefully study by put vehicle
and use it where it will best serve you whether you live in the suburbs on the main
thoroughfares
or trains running
over private right of way proved to be the most practical way to handle large
numbers of people in the large cities your day levels are made possible by
trained skilled people ensure high standards of performance high standards for
equipment to must be upheld regular inspections
and maintenance go on daily because the safety and convenience of thousands of.
People are concerned the net
on rapid transit lines block signals control the safe movement of many trains the
location
and movements of each train our control the dispatchers board all
these devices are placed in the hands of competent alert is to serve the passenger
with safety. And the belief.
Well public transit connection a logical solution to traffic congestion.
We've come a long way in the last fifty years
and we pride ourselves on our accomplishments
dump the cup.
This is really living where
it was bound to happen. We.
Even trying to move traffic
when the basic intent is to move people.
We must move people
or our cities will be strangled to move people
cities must take drastic action establish a system of arterial
and local streets control traffic lighting that speeds the flow to work
and enforce driving
and parking restrictions in heavily traveled streets than parking on
Main Street during rush hours restrict turns at busy intersections
and some cities may have to reserve the street
or at least traffic for transit vehicles alone because one person in one car
can delay hundreds of people in the transit.
This may have to accept deliveries set off if you must give the transit system a
fair break then tax legislation. Then with neutralise enforced.
Surface transit can give the service of rapid transit it will be even more
convenient
and practical to park your car outside the downtown area on the outskirts there is
major transit system will then get you to work
and in half the time you will be cigs
that is more dangerous than a transit drive.
You will be able to ride to the corner near insurance rates will be reduced
valuable property will be saved for business and industry
and because of reduce congestion speed the flow of the majority who already ride
the if you are sick of fighting traffic.
What do you think it might be
but do you want your town strangled by traffic congestion continual destruction of
valuable property
or is your town going building a sound urban transit system
that will speed the travel of people today for city stop
thinking in terms of moving vehicles and your town will be going to.