WILMETTE LIFE October 29, 192o E at . ·I WANT FISH UNIFORM TRAFFIC applied effectively in every villa ge, town and city of any size. CODE FOR COOK COUNTY of Chicago has just completed a surve y its traffic problems, a work that took E Sees Way to Solve City, Suburban Problem ten months and to which the newe st traffic engineering science was applied . Now comes the announcement from the Cliicago Association of Commerce that the Chicago Regional Plannin g association, with which the north shore villages are affiliated, will co -operate with the commerce body in the de velopment of a comprehensive method for the control of street traffic which will increase the effectiveness of the laws of suburban communities and bring the entire Chicago region to gether through a uniformity of traffi c regulation. ·According to the plans of these organization s the administrative o fficer s of the various communities in the Chicago automotive area will me et in the near future to di scuss ways and means to effect this get together move·I , ment in traffic matters. ' Employ Traffic Expert Th e Chicago Association of Com 'J n1crcc appropriated $50,000 to financ~ 1he str eet traffic survey of the Chicago I region. Under the direction of tht street traffi·c committees of thi s or ganization the survey .has studi ed every phase of the city's traffic prob lem a nd ways to red uce accident s, ui1 ravel co nge stion sna rl s and speed up \raffic have heen devi se d. Miller 1\f rClintock, director of th e Albert Ru s:-.tl Erskine bureau for traffic re sea rch oi Harvard univer si ty, a nationally know n t raffle engi neer conducted the survey. fn commenting on the forthcomin ~ mm·emc nt whereby the suhurhan c.om munities and Chi cago can get togctlll' r · and.. unify and simplify. method ~ ni tralhc cnntrul. ~f r. 1f cCimtock saHl : '·~ ~ ore than 125,000 \·chicle s da ih ! pa~s between Chicago and th e count-, : and approximate!\· 250,000 vehicula 1 111()\'('Jllen ts arc exchanged bet\\"('('1 Chicago ancl immediately adj~un t ~ communities. Xot hing short of cha<· , and irreg ularity of street mor enH:tl ' can he expected if each of thest hundreds of thou sa nd s of dri,·crs fttHI himself operating under a different ~ Y' 1 ,. tem ~~f. con trol eve ry time he pa.;.-c~ a pohttcal houndan·. tTniftcatinn of a · method of trafflc ·co ntrol througiH·U1 . the Chicag·o area \rill help all C!lll : cnnerl: the l'Ol11lllltllities " ·hich ;trt· l n(l\\. tr()uhkd witl1 trafiic prohlcn1 ~ and the moto~·i~ts .. who pa ... ~ tl1n,ug h I tht·se C::llllnltlnltleS. ~lr. ~·lcClintock puints c, ut tha t 1safety. and convenience on th e street.; 1 :uHI htghways d epen d on orderly tt:-t ,tnd o rd er !~ · usc depCtH~s o n genera 1 ttnderstandmg and ohcdtence to ftxed rules. of ope~a ti on. Tints a primar~ I requtrem ent lor traftic relief in the Chicago area is to he found in a ha..,ir code of st reet u sc designed to le ssen (Co ntinued on page 54) 1 IAssociation of Commerce xpert 1 ~uburban communities in the Chicago district are assured of relief from liiiiJ:Uq~ their traffic problems, according t.o 15 57 SHERMAN AVENUE plans now being perfected by the Clu cago Association of Commerce for the Evanston development of a method of a traffic ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ control which, it is expected, can be Telephone your orders-Wilmette 649 No Toll We Deliver ~ - . · 811,...~ Ffc...C'..O'tc-..c. ~·e ..r . - --..... M~ ~J· ,. I I "One-Two-Three" and the Laundry's Done! Home laundered things are a joy to use, and mean great economy of clothes as well as expense. So the moderfi home maker insists upon modem home laundry equipment. Here's the machine that does the washing quickly - easily - at slight. expense. 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