High Buildings and Increasing Traffic Long ago The Spectator was
emphasizing the need of bringing together under single control the two fold activities of town-planning and traffic-planning, and we are glad to find Mr. Rees Jeffreys making the same point in a letter to The Times, in regard to the plans for building upwards in great cities. Building upwards may in- creasingly become a necessary part of housing and town- planning in cities, and may not by any means prove to be undesirable. But, as Mr. Jeffreys points out, when you multiply the number of people living over the same piece of ground, you increase the traffic flowing to and from it. Higher buildings should mean broader roads, and no per- mission ought to be given to build above a certain height except on the condition that the building is set back to provide more road space. But • provision for traffic arising from a new method of building (whether for business or private residence) ought to be envisaged as a whole. Housing, town-planning and traffic are one and the same problem, and should be under the direct super- vision of a single authority.
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