European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Europe in a Jam the noose of traffic by Lynn Heinzerling a staff writer to Madrid the growing traffic Tan. J. Gle has just about wiped out the traditional siesta. It s too difficult get Ting of Tome for lunch. In Copenhagen they have turned the colourful old vegetable Market near the Center of the City into a big car  the popular Tivoli gardens is used for parking in the Winter Rome has banned All parking Down town from 7 . To 10 . And from 2 , to 5 . Some streets including the Lovely Piazza Navona have been barred to All motor traffic in Vienna recently a test showed that a Man can walk the 2% Miles from the Western railway station to St. Stephen s Cathedral in just six minutes More Thanet takes by Streetcar and bus. London planners Are talking a outputting pedestrians and motorists on different Levels in some Busy Street Sand even Banning motorists from the Center of the  the canals of Venice Are clogged with gondolas ferries and barges. Most of Europe s Large cities Are fighting a mounting tide of automobiles and the automobiles Are winning new parking arrangements above and below ground one Way streets traffic free streets tunnels Fly overs Cloverleaf scrapped streetcars and elaborate ring roads Are palliative not cures. The automobiles keep  in Moscow among the largest cities Are traffic jams unknown. There Are Only about 80,000 passenger cars there since former Premier Nikita  regarded private transportation As wasteful. Ienna with Only a Quarter of mos cow s population had that Many private automobiles in 1938. There Are 385,241 private cars in Vienna  Are Only 550,000 parking places in Paris for the 1,900,000 cars Register Din the Paris area. Police have created a Blue zone and a Green zone in a Effort to ease the frustration. In the Blue zone parking is limited to 90 min utes in the Green zone trucks Over 3.5 tons May not Park after 10 ."dissuasion" parking lots Are being built on the Edge of the City in a Effort to dissuade motorists from driving downtown. More and More under ground parking garages Are being built including one for 3,000 cars on the ave nue Foch. Efforts have been made to improve bus and subway service but the metro has grown Only 12 Miles in 30  year 400 new buses go into serv  22-mile superhighway is being built around Paris with an est every half mile to Channel traffic away from the Center. It should be finished in 1971.an express Highway hugging the right Bank of the. Seine now carries motorists from the Point do Jour Bridge in the West to tie National Bridge in East Ern Paris 1� about 15 minutes at most times of  express Highway goes right under the place de la concorde in a Tunnel the place de la Concord usually is a perpetual tangle of traffic from morn ing to night another express Highway along the left Bank will be built late. W8iwmbpw�iis�sis daily Magazine Paris like other european cities is one big traffic Jam despite Engineer efforts to Stem mounting tide. Is 20 years. In a City whose streets were largely Laid for the sedate manners of the victorian period this adds up to traffic chaos. One traffic expert calculated that forthe 14 million registered vehicles in great Britain now there Are Only 11.8yards of major or secondary Roadway in the country per vehicle. About 1,200,000 people commute to work in Central London daily. Fifty per cent of them travel by bus or underground railway another 40 per cent by British railways. The remaining 10per cent come by car and they have their troubles. Traffic engineers have eased the situation somewhat with one Way streets elevated roads and tunnels at strategic Points but a massive problem remains. The Southeast economic planning coun cil in a report prepared for the government said it was of first import Ance that an outer ring and an inner ring to keep cars out of Central Londo be completed by 1980. An earlier traffic Survey predicted that in All parts of London the roads will be almost continuously Busy by1980." other plans to ease the crowding in London include one to move the government itself to Windsor with the huge civil service establishment. Madrid has 684,000 registered motor vehicles compared with 65,500 in 1940. Even in the Plaza mayor the ancient Square where Royalty watched executions during the inquisition is now Large Hole which eventually will be come an underground garage. There Are 21 now under construction but they will provide room for Only 8,950  City has been widening streets and has even been paring Down the there Are Only 550,000 parking places in Paris for the 1,900,000 cars registered in the Paris area. Circular plazas around the statues of Spain s heroes to give the cars More room. But the crowded streets  stops and subway platforms Are  penury in Public and private transport and the radial organization convergent on the Center our metro Politan system has been feeding a congestion that is arriving at a critical Point says Juan Antonio i Aruejo architect.  bad 280,000 automobiles 20 years ago. Now there Are 8,300,000 an italian cities with their narrow streets and architectural treasures do not Len themselves easily to modern highways. Rome police say the downtown Park ing ban has seeded up traffic from 10 to 40 per cent. Romans Are Agai Nable to stroll along streets Long a men Ace to pedestrians. If the City has it Sway there will be streets for strollers Only linking the Piazza Dispagna wit the tiber River. The viennese have Long resisted the thought of an underground railway. The City fathers have now decided that to defeat the automobile the City must have a combined underground and elevated railway. Other cities Are experimenting wit various forms of Public transport in an Effort to reduce automobile  is trying double Decker buses. London whose red double Decker bus shave become a worldwide image is experimenting with single Decker buses with one Driver conductor rather than a two Man Crew As a Way to expand its routes despite a manpower shortage. Moscow has no traffic or Parkin problems. With Only 80,000 private cars motorists can usually pull up at the Sid of the Street wherever they want to Stop. Over a billion strap hangers rid Moscow s subways each year and this is Only 40 per cent of the total  others use crowded buses and antiquated streetcars. Of number of motor vehicles inthe London Region is now put at 3,500,600 and is expected to double in the next tuesday january 28, 1969 for the 14 million registered vehicles in great Britain now there Are Only 118 Yards of. Roa Divay per vehicle the stars and stripes be Copenhagen Motorist described the City s Center As a Driver s hell despite one Way streets parking meters and parking bans. Copenhagen s first parking garage opened last Spring and More underground parking facilities preplanned including one under the Parade grounds and Garrison of Rosenberg Asue. Plans Are in the works for a Semi circular motor Road part of h underground. A 30 mile Highway from Copenhagen to Elsinore is under construction there Are 9,600,000 belgians and1,487,000 private cars in the country. They Park them even in the Broa Square of Brussels main tourist at traction the Beautiful 17ui Century grand place with its ancient flemish buildings. There Are plans to ban traffic fro the City s Center but shopkeepers Are continued of Page he 11