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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. Today there sre nine humming
birds spending their days about the
Evans yard snd sometli.-.rs In the
Evans home.
The birds return each summer
from the south, Mrs. Evans ssld, and
build their n a t s. about the
sir of a half d,-vsr. in the bushes
about the yard. They will attack any
bird, regardless of Its sire. If It
comes too near the nests, she hss
discovered.
"I've gotten so fsmlllar with the
blrda that I know each one Indi
vidually," Mrs. Evsns said "I've evrn
named them. One is Tommy Tucker,
so nsmed because .he . makes such ft
fuss If I'm lste putting out his sup
per." On dsmp dsys Mrs. Evsns leaves
Ihe bsck door of her home ;-pcn
and It la not unususl for the birds
to come Inside where it Is warn
Occasionally they make themselves
guests at the dinner table
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