. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . Fig, 1 Calhoun Street, as it now is, between the railroad and Lewis Street. With a vehicle on eithercurb, through traffic has no space except on the street car With this part of Calhoun Street broadened to give a fifty-foot road—accomplished by adding ten feet to the streets width and taking two feet from each sidewalk—it Would be possible for a wagon to pass between a truck at the curb and a street car. The small change Would thus give two additional lines of traffic, so facilitating great
. Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association . Fig, 1 Calhoun Street, as it now is, between the railroad and Lewis Street. With a vehicle on eithercurb, through traffic has no space except on the street car With this part of Calhoun Street broadened to give a fifty-foot road—accomplished by adding ten feet to the streets width and taking two feet from each sidewalk—it Would be possible for a wagon to pass between a truck at the curb and a street car. The small change Would thus give two additional lines of traffic, so facilitating greatly all traffic movement. At all events, Calhoun Street could be widened five feet ona side for that distance very quickly under the Philadelphiaordinance, and this would be a result well worth getting fornothing. A delay, however, will mean that new buildings, notto be changed for a long time, will be constructed on the pres-ent line. It should be added that the widening of this portionof Calhoun Street is particularly necessary because from thetracks to Lewis street its present width is only sixty feet, as 24 Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association compared with sixty-six further north; and because in thatsection the cross streets do not directl
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