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PAGE EIGHTEEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOIiU. OREGON, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 16, 1934. NIGHTMARE SEEN YEARS: , Narrow Streets Will Be Com pletely Jammed if Present Vehicle Increase Is Long Continued Say Experts Br Joseph c.riu, Jr. I'nltm rress Staff Correspondent iriNnON. IUPI Nlthtmare ialons of London's traffic tangles during the j I .... v.... nn1tirnii iin hv i Q perts here are giving Londoners a bad attack of traffic "blues." I Some of theae prophets declare , that traffic In the narrow thorough- fares of the metropolis will be slowed down to a one-mlle-an-hour , tortoise-like crawl by 1B46 If the vclume of taxla, trucks, private auto mobiles and elephantine busses con- j tlnues to Incresse. In 1923, there were 198.978 vehicles registered in ; the London county council area. ' Last year there were more than ball ' million. , ! Traffic Merry-c;n-Rounds The big street "merry-go-rounds." j which are the chief barometer of j traffic conditions in London, show greater congestion every year. Lon- l don's busleit roundabout at Hyde Park Corner now Is passed by 82.000 vehicles a day compared with 66,000 ten years ago. The number of ve hicles passing Trafalgar Square dally has Increased from 42,000 to 65,000 In the last ten years, and at Black frlars Bridge from 30,000 to 42.000. In ten years the total number ot vehicles registered In the whole ol Oreat Britain has Increased from 1.141,000 to 2.282.000. Some experts 1 now are predicting that they will have reached a total of S.000.000 by ; 1946. Visions of the chaotic conditions i which may prevail by 1946 have been given additional color recently by the annual dog-days' road-mcndlne epidemic which resulted In the tem porary closing of ft number of main arteries. Unwary motorists found themselves Jammed for long periods ! In traffic blocks extending hundreds of yards. Similar congestion has been caused by the demolition work now in progress on old Waterloo Bridge. ! Life Tough Problem j Life alao la going to be ft tough 1 problem for the already harassed pedestrian here If the experta are right. Despite the crop of colored traffic lights, pedestrian crossings equipped with orange "beacons" and new one-way atreets which constant ly are making their appearance In London, the Londoner Is coming to the conclusion that crossing a ma n street Is developing Into a rough- and-tumble game of hide-and-seek, j Londoners also are getting more I and more Into the habit of using subway crossings under busy thor oughfares and traffic "merry-go-rounda" Ilka Piccadilly Circus. In fact It looks as If the msn In the street of 1934 will become the man under the street of 1946. Some of the traffic ''futurists" be lieve that going underground will be the chief solution of London's road difficulties. Another Idea Is the construction or elevated roadways and the covering In of maln-llne railroads out ot London to create new hlghwsys sim ilar to Park Avenue In New York. Some of the moat radical "futurists" would like to build broad new arter ial highways slsshed across the metropolis from north to south and east to west linked by concentric circular roadways. TAfWEDBY LADY, KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) A group! of humming birds, most restless and i timid of all birds, have been tamed i by Mrs. O. M. Evans. It was a feat I bird experts told her was ImpoMlble. Mrs. Evana first decided to make friends with the tiny birds smallest of all feathered creatures when she noticed several about her flower gar den. For weeka she sst In the gar den, motionless for long periods. Finally, after several weeks, one bird perched on her hand. It was the. beginning between the Evans family and the birds. That was four yeers ago. 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