ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS
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Fort Monroe. At 35 miles per hour this bypass can easily be traveled in 16 minutes. The old route through the city was 11.2 miles long and required & minimum of eight stops. Travel time in off-peak hours averaged 29 minutes and during rush hours was considerably longer. The new route, therefore, saves at least 13 minutes and avoids the necessity of frequent stops and starts.
Figure 27.—Origin and destination of vehicles traveling on U.S. 1 between Washington and Baltimore.
By such actual time studies it is demonstrated that through travelers would be saved time and annoyance and much of the cost of stopping and starting at numerous street intersections if convenient routes were provided around all cities. Such routes undoubtedly have a proper place in a well-designed system of traffic arteries for any city.
