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Title: Transactions of conference held March 9 to 13, 1914, at Liberty buildings, Liverpool
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Liverpool Town Planning and Housing Exhibition, 1914 Adshead, S. D Abercrombie, Patrick, Sir, 1879-
Subjects: Garden cities Labor and laboring classes City planning
Publisher: (Liverpool) University press of Liverpool
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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able, but it should not be forgotten thatthe younger children seldom reach parks and open spaceswhich are at a considerable distance from their homes. Most of you who have seen the wide roads of the Continentaltowns will know that they are much used by people as openspaces. The lady of the house brings down her children to aseat and works at sewing, &c, while the children play around,and after all we, as Town Planners, if we are to be really success-ful, must see that it is possible to rear healthy children withinour large towns. Another subject for discussion is The Desirability ofproviding Separate Routes for Trams and Rapid MotorTraffic. I suppose the word routes should really havebeen tracks, because it is a question of separate tracksrather than of separate routes. It is a particularly interestingsubject at the present time. We in Liverpool have now hadconsiderable experience with the usual formation of streets inwhich the whole surface of the carriageway is used in common 32
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by all classes of traffic, and up to the present time they may besaid to have fairly met the requirements. Speed is, however, becoming gradually a matter of greaterimportance. Since the coming of the motor-car many attemptshave been made to reduce speeds, but to-day it may be fairlysaid that motors and motor speeds have come to stay. Themotor bus with its superior average speed will have theinevitable effect of speeding up the tramcar, and in my viewthe tramcar will respond with a specially fenced-off track inthe roadway, along which it can travel at a speed in advanceof anything likely to be legalised on a roadway used in commonby general traffic. A length of such a roadway has recently been authorisedand is bei

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