Public works . This preliminary study of major traffic streets now usedas such illustrates the necessit> for diagonal routes andthrough hauling streets in many parts of tlie city. Open-ing and widening of these routes should be done as soonas definite business, residence and industrial zones havebeen settled An ideal plan for the development of major traffic streetsprepared by E. H. Bennett in 1911, which is now beingstudied in connection with recent growth of Portland. 134 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS Vol. XLVII, No. 9 Again, the wider, heavier pavement necessary for amain tra
Public works . This preliminary study of major traffic streets now usedas such illustrates the necessit> for diagonal routes andthrough hauling streets in many parts of tlie city. Open-ing and widening of these routes should be done as soonas definite business, residence and industrial zones havebeen settled An ideal plan for the development of major traffic streetsprepared by E. H. Bennett in 1911, which is now beingstudied in connection with recent growth of Portland. 134 MUNICIPAL JOURNAL AND PUBLIC WORKS Vol. XLVII, No. 9 Again, the wider, heavier pavement necessary for amain traffic artery of travel is more expensive than thatrequired on ordinary residence streets with little or notraffic. It is hardly fair to make the property frontingon such a travelled thoroughfare pay the additional costof such paving for the benefit of a heavy through traffic,which originates far away and probably passes throughwithout service or benefit to the abutting propertyowner. Paying the other fellows bill is always unpopular,and this sense of injustice stops by protest many a pav-ing project of urgent importance. San Francisco andother cities are therefore paying from one-third to one-half the original cost of pavements on such thorough-fares. In Berkeley recently, San Pablo Avenue, runningacross the we
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