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Daily News from New York, New York • 114

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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114
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DAILTNEWS, TUESDAYMAY 10, 1938 10 Moses Believes Fair's Traffic i Solved by Long-Range Plan "Maor Trafc Cases Fall to Zero For the first time this yea-r no new major traffic offenses for the week-end reported in Manhattan Homicide Court yesterday. Credit is given to recent court orders providing for drastic punishment for even minor infractions of traffic laws. By CARL WARREN. Park Commissioner Robert Moses the city's No. 1 bridge and road builder yesterday foresaw the World's Fair traffic problem solved in essentials by 1939 with a new system of long-range improvements.

gestion periods. Look at It this way. We -an- count on eight or ten fine, sunshiny Sundays when there are special attractions at the Fair. On those days, from 12 noon to 7 P. congestion will be at its worst, There is bound to be discomfort during those fifty to seventy hours.

Can't Please Everybody. "That can't be avoided. Don't let anybody think it's going to be. For by no stretch of the imagination could sane traffic planners justify the terrific capital investment that would be required to make everybody happy just for seventy hours. "We've got to hit the tough spots the spots where we know the cars are going to jam up and spend our money as economically as possible to make it go around." Moses yesterday spent the day inspecting the Eastern Boulevard and Bronx-Whitestone Bridge projects in company with Rexford G.

Tugwell, new head of the City Planning Commission. (Map on page 24) (Another article on tkU iovio it may be will be but a one-year, possibly a two-year, show. The traffic arteries will stay. "Fortunately our Fair needs and our permanent needs pretty well coincide," he explained. The Fair was planned that way.

"In building to and around the Fair, we build for generations to come." Bronx Project Important. Asked why an improvement In the Bronx the Eastern Boulevard project would help World's Fair traffic. Moses explained: sands of motorists swiftly via the bridges to- Long Island without entering the Fair Every one we keep out of the Fair area means room for one more in the area." Preview Estimates High. Estimates, of the crowds at Fair previews the last two Sundays 500,000 May 2 and 600,000 May 9 Moses believed far too large. Careful checks showed about 50,000 and 125,000 respectively, he said.

We can't tell, of course, exactly what the crowds wfll be in 1939," Moses "But here is something to remember. "Don't expect us to make every' motorist comfortable at peak con j. fiat vnc ui i. lie: must 1 III VI tant links of all. The problem is two-sided.

First, you've got to get people who want to go to the Fair to the Fair. Secondly, you get those who don't want to go to the Fair away from it. "If Eastern Boulevard can be finished in time, it will carry thou- He warned, lit the same that a half dozen bottlenecks urgently need breaking now. These jobs, he said, demand immediate hammering by the officials in charge. "The traffic outlook for the Fair, as a whole, is O.

K.w, the Commissioner said. "We have achieved much already. But there is much to do." Summarizes Improvements. Here are the major new Fair traffic improvements now complete or assured of completion in 1939, as ranked by Moses: Finished. 1.

The Tri-boro Bridge, linking Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. 2. Grand Central Parkway and its extensions. 3. The Nassau Boulevard improvement.

Queens Boulevard to the Fair Ground. To Be Finished. 4. The Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. Opening date, June 1, 1939.

5. Northern Boulevard improvement along Flushing Bay, with a new bridge across Flushing Creek. 6. Opening up of streets east and west of Fair Ground. will appear toon in The News.) Whs fox mi Commissioner Moses Point out Fair' traffic problem.

WEHERE A GLOKSOUS connection from Union Turnpike to the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge. (4) Widening and repair of Grand Central Parkway Extension within the Fair. (5) A new bridge across Grand Central Parkway extension to the North Beach sewage disposal plant. (6) Widening of Woodhaven Boulevard at the bottleneck north of Sunrise Highway. Long-Range Viewpoint.

All twelve of the improvements in the two groups, Moses said. Bottlenecks to Be Smashed. The group of bottleneck-smashing projects, less certain of completion but considered as vital to the Fair by Moses, are in various atages of and constructing. These are: 1. Eastern Boulevard improvement through the Bronx from the i to Bronx Whitestone bridges.

2. The Meeker Ave. connection from Brooklyn to the Fair site. 3. The Cross Island Boulevard were necessary, not aione 10 Fair, but to later city development.

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