Abstract

In the Driftway

It is one of the splendid ironies of life in New York City that the New York Central freight trains which crawl through Eleventh Avenue are required to send a man on horseback ahead of the locomotive and lumbering steam rollers which smooth out newly laid pavement at about four miles an hour must be preceded by a man with a red flag, but motor cars are permitted to dash along Broadway at thirty or forty miles an hour without the benefit even of a cowcatcher to toss the pedestrian out of the way. The general manager of the New York Automobile Club has just issued a suggestion that private cars should not be used for Christmas shopping. The village of Radburn has already been laid out in New Jersey by the City Housing Corp. with separate, non-intersecting routes for motor cars and walkers.