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Problems: Town or Gown?

There is as little agreement over who should solve the problem around the Square as over how to solve it. The University, while making token efforts at controlling its cars, feels that traffic is essentially a city problem, and directs its efforts to a noticeable extent at educating rather than parking its students. The city officials, who suggest that the Square is occasionally congested, feel that the University really ought to consider students' transportation along with their matriculation. Sullivan claims that the University is downright uncooperative in this respect too.

Traffic problems, while never as ridiculous as in recent years, have rarely been sublime since Henry Ford first began bring cylinders. Back in 1927, Will Rogers told a group of traffic engineers that "this traffic congestion is becoming steadily worse." He proposed that on Mondays, everyone be required to drive in an easterly direction, Tuesdays west, Wednesdays north and Thursdays south. Then these motorists should stay home the other three days, leaving the field clear for weekend drivers."

Uncircled Square

Less than ten years ago, the city tried what mathematicians long have known to be impossible: circling the Square by making it one huge traffic rotary. The results were as disastrous on the streets as they always have been in geometricians' calculations.

Focal point of the overnight parking problem is the city ordinance banning cars on the streets all night. Ready, Curry and Lynch favor standing pat on the law which they say was the result of public pressure. Curry claims that there is sufficient parking space for all student cars on University property (there isn't) while he's not going to worry about illegally parked cars till he sees all the city's parking lots, garages and driveways bulging with autos every night. Ready, who really isn't too worried either, feels that parked cars are a fire hazard and obstruct refuse and snow removal.

Mayor John J. Foley, Councilor Marcus Morton (Yale '16), and Charles C. Pyne, assistant to the Administrative Vice-President of the University Edward R. Reynolds, look upon alternate side, alternate night parking as a possible step toward a realistic answer. Pyne affirmed that the present ordinance, because it is occasionally violated, tends to weaken respect for other traffic regulations. Alternate side parking, Foley feels, would also solve the cleaning and snow removal obstacles.

Curry thinks that the present ordinance is so well enforced that such a solution would leave the problem of where to put the other half of the cars presently parked on the streets at night.

While he feels that enforcement of the law is practically impossible, (Ready says it is enforced), Morton said that the present complement of night patrolmen could easily enforce a more realistic ordinance and would also be more disposed to do so. Sullivan wants more police.

Concern is also in the air over congestion in the Square, over the fact that, at certain times during the day, it can take as long as 20 minutes to drive, say from Lamont to PBH. Most freshmen and able upperclass men could walk this distance comfortably in four minutes.

De Guglielmo, would solve this by making the Yard into a traffic circle. He would divert all Arlington-bound traffic through Quincy street, thereby reversing its present direction and make Massachusetts Ave. one way Bostonward. Morton suggests that this plan would also require building an unsightly overpass for freshmen on their way to Union meals, since they might have trouble battling the madding crowd of mechanized citizens on the ground level.

At this week's city council meeting, the MTA announced that it plans to replace its streetcars to Arlington with busses, which would run through the Square rather than under it, as now. Mayor Foley oppose this, saying that the MTA could well run all its vehicles under the Square and thus relieve surface congestion. Sullivan isn't too happy with the MTA, either.

Foley also chided the MTA for refusing to allow a parking garage to be built over its car barn at Boylston Street and Memorial Drive. Several city efforts to inaugurate such a proposal have collided with the MTA's insistence on keeping its parked streetcars radiant with sunshine or wet with rain rather than covered with parked automobiles.

This site and possible others along Mt. Auburn St. are considered quite suitable for a multiple story garage by James F. Clapp, Jr. '31, a member of the Boston firm of architects Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot who have designed most of Harvard's building for the last century.