Charles Robert Thompson, Traffic and Transportation Plan for Chicagoland and Everywhere.
11x8.5", 21 leaves, including one map.
Carbon copy on onionskin-like paper. This is a carbon copy from the typed original of one man's answer to the traffic problems of Chicago. I'm fairly certain that this is a private effort and was never published. There are no copies in WorldCat/OCLC, and the only internet listing is for the copyright notice. Provenance: the Library of Congress Pamphlet Collections; there are some routing/accession numbers and a date from the copyright office on the back of the copyright page (No 11, 1935), and a LC surplus/duplicate rubber stamp on the rear cover. Bound in a period two-punch manila folder with hand-lettered title on front cover. In VERY GOOD condition.SOLD
Mr. Thompson starts his effort by reviewing the traffic accidents and deaths in the U.S. and Chicagoland (which were very high per capita compared to now). He also records streetcar fatalities, which for Chicago was more than one per day in 1934, which seems like an enormous figure. In any event he reviews the situation and proposes taxicab-less avenues, restricted parking, traffic tunnels, parking garages, and such, as a solution. Some of the ideas by this private citizen sound good, others not so.
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