Engineering and Contracting . in width of the road was exaggerated inorder that such things as cuts, fills, ditches. Summary of Street Traffic Conditionsin a Number of Large Cities. The rapid development of .American citiesin the oast two decades has brought the prob-lem of providing for present and future traf-fic squarely before the engineer. .\ consid-eration of the problems of other cities is oftenhelpful in the solution of immediate diffi-culties and the summary below, taken fromthe report of the Manchester (England)Tramways Committee, as presented by TheSurveyor of London, is of
Engineering and Contracting . in width of the road was exaggerated inorder that such things as cuts, fills, ditches. Summary of Street Traffic Conditionsin a Number of Large Cities. The rapid development of .American citiesin the oast two decades has brought the prob-lem of providing for present and future traf-fic squarely before the engineer. .\ consid-eration of the problems of other cities is oftenhelpful in the solution of immediate diffi-culties and the summary below, taken fromthe report of the Manchester (England)Tramways Committee, as presented by TheSurveyor of London, is of interest in that itgives the viewpoint of men who are dealingwith foreign trattic conditions which are oftenmuch more complicated than those in thiscountry. An investigation was made in part, for thepurpose of determining so far as possible (1)the probable increase in traffic in the next20 years; (2) provisions necessary to diminishthe increased congestion in the central streetsand facilitating traffic by means of (a) widen-. Key i i i s Har nson -Hatt 3/v -Gr*i t- Clare The heovij lined road in the abovediagram is covered by sheets ,3The light double line road in Frostand Hayes Twps is covered byNote:- sheets Notes on this sheet found onpages 32-3S inclusive and page 1-4inclusiveTraffic for sheets I,2,and315 buggies,&teoms 4 outornibleshouses and school houses for 45 houses 4 school houses. • House • Barn /i CorfSch House t Church- « Sec Cor unii Marsh oj Cemetery ——?? £»j , ;- ^ Point of change in direction Fig. 2. Method of Mapping Reconnaissance Survey in Michigan. land, clearing or improved farms; approxi-mate location of buildings, giving kind : condi-tion of road grade, and if improved in anydegree—the width, alignment and drainage;kind of soil on roadway, whether sand, clay,loam or swamp (notation being given of thedistance from the starting point to the sev-eral changes) ; location, condition and ditches, creeks
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