MOTORISTS SQUEEZE UP WHILE WALKERS EXPAND

Shannon News, 29 January 1929, Page 4

MOTORISTS SQUEEZE UP WHILE WALKERS EXPAND

ON WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON

Like a dream come true of the man who thought how convenient it would be if elephants were thin and ii.it, motorists in Washington Street, Boston arc presently going to be notified to make themselves and their cars pessing small, and the space accomplished by this means is going to be transformed into six-foot addition.*, either side of the street, to the present sidewalks to accommodate the hordes of holiday shoppers.

Although it would require at least a prophetic eye to see how in the world aiHomobilcy could probably squeeze through Washington Streec between these tAvo blocks in any closer formation than ,thcy have in the past, J. F. Hurley, city traffic engineer for Boston, has optimistically announced that he was about to "paint wider sidewalks'' in bold, broad lines the'length of these tw r o blocks and require automobiles to keep off them, leaving them to renewed scrambling of pedestrians. Having suited his action to the word Mr. Hurley has gone ahead with practical plans for this additional 12 feet of foot room. Signs have been painted which indicate the general if unusual idea. It is an oddity of Boston traffic regulations that no such revolutionary business can be put into effect without the due posting of signs to warn all who run that it is impending. Police Commissioner Wilson has approved the "design" of ihe signs and Mr. Hurley says all that is necessary to sot the plan in operation now is the placing of them which he intends to sec to without further ado.