Name/Title
"A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles"Entry/Object ID
2009.345.1.1Description
"A Major Traffic Street Plan for Los Angeles," by Frederick Law Olmstead, Harland Bartholomew and Charles Henry Cheney, May 1924. The item, prepared for the Committee on Los Angeles Plan of Major HIghways of the Traffic Commission of the City and County of Los Angeles, provides a report summary and has parts on causes of congestion, a solution to that problem, creating a balanced street plan, legal and administrative methods for the plan, the major street plan concept and detail improvements suggested. There are three appendices on grade separations, legal issues, and traffic counts. Twenty-one maps, plans and diagrams, some fold out, are also present. With partially separated boards that are rubbed and soiled, but clean contents, the condition is overall fair.Lexicon
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