Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...survey of Boston Traffic conditions conducted by the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau of Harvard at the authorization of the Boston City Council in 1926 will bear its first fruits in the next few months with the start of a progressive revision of present methods of signal control", asserted M. N. Halsey traffic expert in charge of a Massachusetts state survey to a CRIMSON representative yesterday...
...Though this Division three plans of improvement will be carried into effect. The first is the adoption of a progressive Signal Control system. To facilitate this Boston has been divided into four zones each zone mapped out according to the amount of traffic occurring in it. The first unit includes Boylston Tremont and Washington streets and will have the new tricolor signals installed this winter. The City Council has granted $125,000 for this one zone. The other three areas will be completed in the order of their importance...
...third revision has already been made effective by the State. This is the changing and amendment of Boston traffic ordinances in accordance with the code recommended at the Hoover Conference on traffic. Boston also has been affected by the new Massachusetts law which gives supervisory control of all lights and through street regulations to the state. The new signal units will be subject to this...
...changes contemplated for Boston will take about three years to completed. When the "Progressive Control" system is installed however Boston will have the same methods of traffic control as are now in effective use in Los Angeles and Chicago. Dr. McClintock also advocated and was responsible for the adoption of the system in these two cities...
Havelock Ellis shows that, whether for better or for worse, the family is not disappearing, but its status and quality improving by control of wasteful and unnecessary births...