. Transactions of conference held March 9 to 13, 1914, at Liberty buildings, Liverpool. ty. When we commencedour first scheme in Birmingham, the Quinton and HarborneTown Planning scheme, covering about 2,320 acres, we foundit was necessary not only to consider the main routes but thewhole subject of arterial routes in the city and in those districtswhich had been added to the city in 1911. On your rightthere is a map marked General Survey drawn to a scale of6 inches to a mile. Perhaps I might observe that the old cityarea before November, 1911, was 13,477 acres, and at thepresent time it is 43
. Transactions of conference held March 9 to 13, 1914, at Liberty buildings, Liverpool. ty. When we commencedour first scheme in Birmingham, the Quinton and HarborneTown Planning scheme, covering about 2,320 acres, we foundit was necessary not only to consider the main routes but thewhole subject of arterial routes in the city and in those districtswhich had been added to the city in 1911. On your rightthere is a map marked General Survey drawn to a scale of6 inches to a mile. Perhaps I might observe that the old cityarea before November, 1911, was 13,477 acres, and at thepresent time it is 43,537 acres. You will see we added con-siderably to the city and it was absolutely necessary to considerthe arterial roads. The existing roads are coloured lightbrown on the map and the proposed arterial roads pink. Youwill notice that the names of the main roads are printed onthe margin of the map and you will see that the great roadsinto the city all run towards the centre like the fingers of oneshand and it means that the whole of the traffic where it is 46 TftWNE PLANNING SCHEMES. through traffic has to pass right through the heavily traffickedstreets of the centre. The work we set ourselves to do was to lay out the lines ofthe proposed arterial roads. The great ring road which hasbeen projected is 100 feet in width, and it will be at an averagedistance of 1 mile from the city boundary. Commencing onthe west side of the city by a junction with the main road toHalesowen, it takes a course due south for a distance of about4| miles, when it crosses the Bristol road ; from this pointthe course is eastward for about 6 miles, and in this length itcrosses the following main roads radiating to the centre of thecity—the Alvechurch road, Pershore road, Alcester road, andStratford road. From its junction with the Stratford road itsdirection is northerly for about 7| miles, and the main roadscrossed are the Warwick road, Coventry road, Nuneaton andLeicester road, Tamworth road, and th
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