ARCHITECTURAL STUDENTS TO COUNT PASSING AUTOS

On Thursday morning between 8.30 o'clock and 9.30 o'clock, and again in the afternoon between 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock, students of the School of Landscape Architecture will be stationed at all the major street crossings in the vicinity of Harvard engaged in counting the automobiles that pass.

This "traffic count" has been organized to aid the newly-appointed committee which is to advise the Corporation in the general matter of the relations of the University to the problems of traffic and new road locations which face the city of Cambridge.

Hubbard and Eliot to Report

Professor H. V. Hubbard '97, and C. W. Eliot 2nd '20 have been appointed by the Corporation to investigate the traffic situation. Professor Hubbard, who is a Professor in the School of Landscape Architecture, is the editor of two professional magazines dealing with Landscape Architecture and City Planning. The latter is a recent venture in the periodical field. Mr. Eliot, who graduated from the School of Landscape Architecture in 1923, was formerly an assistant in the School and is now a practising landscape architect and city planner with offices in Boston. He is assistant editor of City Planning.

Men to Count from Many Points

Mr. Eliot has made arrangements to have the traffic counted at various points in the vicinity of the University in order that the present situation may be sized up. Men will be stationed at the crossing of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street, at Harvard Square, at the intersection of Kirkland Street and Massachusetts Avenue, and at various other crossings where there is much traffic.

The men will make careful calculations of the number of automobiles going in different directions, so that by deducting from the "north-bound" score of the teller at Larz Anderson Bridge the total number of cars entering Harvard Square via Boylston Street, the number of cars turning down Mt. Auburn Street may be roughly determined. The counts will be made at the traffic "rush hours".

Various plans have been proposed recently to relieve the congestion of traffic around the University. One was to cut a street through the Delta connecting Broadway and Oxford Street. It is unlikely that this project will ever be carried through.