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...find it amusing to think that Boston's Appleton Street, referred to in your story "Trying to Tame the Automobile [Oct. 12] can be subdued by speeds of 5 to 10 m.p.h. and that drivers will mind their manners. Boston drivers have been out of control for years. They are a national disgrace, and no measure short of mass arrest will ever make Appleton or any other Boston street safe...
From the book Lifegain. by Robert F. Allen. Ph.D., with Shirley Linde Appleton Books (a division of Prentice-Hall...
Memorial Service--for William Thurmond Graham, AB 1960, AM 1970, PhD 1974; Appleton Chapel...
Trees, planters and decorative street-lighting will be used to channel automobile movement. The entrance to Appleton will be narrowed so tightly that only one car will be able to enter at a time. Cars will be parked in clusters in a hopscotch pattern to impede the flow of autos-indeed, to slow them down to 5 to 10 m.p.h. When the overhaul is completed, cars, cyclists and pedestrians all will share wall-to-wall rights to the street, with pedestrians first among equals...
...closing one street to automobiles only increases traffic in others. When main arteries are clogged, impatient commuters short-cut through residential streets-as the people on Boston's Appleton Street discovered, to their dismay. Incessant traffic noise, pollution and lack of parking rank high among the reasons why people move out of the cities...