The Tentative Street Plan
- Item sets
- 20th Century Bangor, Maine
- Title
- The Tentative Street Plan
- Creator
- Bangor (Me.). Planning Board
- Date
- 1948
- Description
- Summary of the Report: This report on the Street Plan discusses: 1) the need for street planning. 2) the ideal street system and its comparison with Bangor. 3) the Tentative Street Plan for new streets, wider streets, and other street improvements. 4) the methods of supporting the Street Plan with an Official Map and Subdivision Regulations. This report is condensed from a complete report on streets which is on file in the Planning Office. The ideas put forth are those which the Planning Board are studying before adopting them as parts of the Master Plan. The criticisms of the citizens of Bangor are invited.
- Contents
- Street Planning--Traffic Accidents in 1948--The Ideal Street System--A "Standard" Diagram of a Radial Street System Superimposed on Bangor--A "Gridiron" Neighborhood Street System--A Protected Neighborhood Street System--The Tentative Street Plan--Proposed By-Pass Route--Traffic Flow--Plan of Traffic Streets--One-Way Streets--Alternate Designs for One-Way Traffic at Broadway Park--Backing Up the Plan
- Subject
- Bangor (Me.)--City planning
- Streets--Maine--Bangor
- Traffic engineering--Maine--Bangor
- Traffic patterns--Maine--Bangor
- Urban policy--Maine--Bangor
- Type
- Informational works
- Spatial Coverage
- Bangor (Me.)
- Language
- English
- Is Part Of
- Bangor Public Library Special Collections
- Note
- An analysis of the needs to change the streets and traffic patterns in Bangor, Maine, complete with diagrams and maps.
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