. Electric railway journal . weeks and then the road went outof business. 1076 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 21 Traffic and Transportation Traffic Changes Urged New Orleans Committee RecommendsRerouting of Many Lines—Com-panys Educational Campaign Rerouting and straightening of carlines and strict regulation of vehiculartraffic in congested areas are recom-mended in a report recently submittedto the Association of Commerce of NewOrleans, La., by a special committeewhich has been investigating electric After much discussion with auto ownersand others, your committee has decidedto recomm
. Electric railway journal . weeks and then the road went outof business. 1076 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 21 Traffic and Transportation Traffic Changes Urged New Orleans Committee RecommendsRerouting of Many Lines—Com-panys Educational Campaign Rerouting and straightening of carlines and strict regulation of vehiculartraffic in congested areas are recom-mended in a report recently submittedto the Association of Commerce of NewOrleans, La., by a special committeewhich has been investigating electric After much discussion with auto ownersand others, your committee has decidedto recommend tliat existing ordinances berigidly enforced, and if that cannot bedone, that parking of cars for extendedperiods in the congested district betweenPoydras and Conti and Ellt Place and SouthPeters, with the exception of Canal Street,be prohibited. Wants More One-Way Streets The report recommends further that automobile traffic be kept on the move as much as possible. There should be an increase in the number of one-way. move to the front of the car, was de-scribed in a previous issue of theElectric Railway Journal. Recentlythe company has been running a seriesof advertisements in the local news-papers asking the public to learn thetruth about electric railway opera-tion. In one of these ads the companyshows that delays are often unavoid-able because of the blocking of thetracks by automobiles and horse-drawnvehicles. A special feature of this educationalcampaign has been a window-displayshowing a trolley cars innards. ^Thecompany assumed that, if the publicrealized the complicated structure ofa car, it would more readily appre-ciate the reasons why riders were notcarried free. On the wall were hungcar curtains and placed on mounds andon the floor were a number of themany parts that go to making andoperating- an electric car. To each partwas - attached a card showing the costof that particular part in 1915 and in1920—the advance in each instancebeing from 25 per cent to 1
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