. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. should be—and we mustanticipate that their growing majesty will call for a generous sideplanting strip. For that reason, when recognizing the aesthetic andeconomic waste of the present fifty-foot roadway, I hesitated for a time between recommending awidening of the strip betweencurb and walk or the use ofcenter parking. Finally, theuniqueness of the opportunityin Binghamton for the centerparking effect has persuaded meto recommend that Grand Boule-vard be developed as follows:Between curbs and prop
. Better Binghamton; a report to the Mercantile-Press Club of Binghamton, N. Y., September 1911. should be—and we mustanticipate that their growing majesty will call for a generous sideplanting strip. For that reason, when recognizing the aesthetic andeconomic waste of the present fifty-foot roadway, I hesitated for a time between recommending awidening of the strip betweencurb and walk or the use ofcenter parking. Finally, theuniqueness of the opportunityin Binghamton for the centerparking effect has persuaded meto recommend that Grand Boule-vard be developed as follows:Between curbs and property line,twenty feet; roadways on eitherside of the center parking,twenty feet; center parking,twenty feet. This will make a symmetricaland exceedingly handsome thor-oughfare; it will diminish byten feet the width of pavementto be constructed and main-tained, while owing to the dividedroadways there will be an in-crease rather than decrease inits traffic efficiency—not a very?too1 >j pressing matter at present, but Proposed Development for ^ ^ apparent reasQn for ^. width of roadway now given. As to the degree of traffic efficiencyunder the proposed arrangement, it may be noted that with thecenter parking dividing the traffic into eastbound and westboundchannels, so that there is no danger of collision, there willbe room in each roadway for a line of slow moving and for aline of fast moving vehicles, with now and then an additional vehicleat the curb. This is comparable to the traffic capacity of many ofthe busiest streets in the world, and is substantially the arrange-ment adopted on some of the most beautiful and most famousEuropean avenues. It is really, in deference to the assumed prefer-ence of the present property owners, a very liberal arrangementas regards traffic provision. The street would look better, anddoubtless would serve every need, if the two roadways were narrowedto eighteen feet each, and the center parking thereby widened totwenty-fou
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