History of Milwaukee, city and county . ants of the buildings fronting on it and the same holds true ofmost of the business streets in other large cities. During the peak hours there are to be found on Grand Avenue betweenWest Water Street and Second Street and on the south side of the street anaverage of four to six hundred pedestrians. Were this block to hold a six-teen-story office building, having a frontage of the entire block, an additionof some four thousand persons would use this block during these peak were all the blocks, from the river to Sixth Street, likewise covered wit
History of Milwaukee, city and county . ants of the buildings fronting on it and the same holds true ofmost of the business streets in other large cities. During the peak hours there are to be found on Grand Avenue betweenWest Water Street and Second Street and on the south side of the street anaverage of four to six hundred pedestrians. Were this block to hold a six-teen-story office building, having a frontage of the entire block, an additionof some four thousand persons would use this block during these peak were all the blocks, from the river to Sixth Street, likewise covered withsixteen-story office buildings, a congestion would result which it would bedifficult to cope with; for the sidewalk capacity in any one of these blocksis only about nine hundred persons. Milwaukee will one day be a city of amillion or more inhabitants, and such a development of skyscrapers on eachside of the street is notan impossibility if restrictions are withheld. The Problem of Transportation.—The problem of rapid transportation. A LAKE FRONT STUDSThe above shows a bridge which will spun the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracksat the head of Mason Street. In the background will be noted a Memorial Peristile. Thisplan has been accepted by the Milwaukee Park Board. Designed by Alfred C. Clas, architect
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