In The Nick of Time

(Ed. Note-The Crimson does not necessarily endorse opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer will names be withheld.) To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Having spent the past eight months playing tag with the traffic tangle in Harvard Square and environs, I wish to protest against the laissez-faire attitude adopted toward this menace. I am sure most members of the University will endorse the protest. There are times when one envisions Harvard as a fortress guarded by an infinite number of whirling autos, buses and street cars, forming a gamut through which the lorn pedestrian must pass.

The situation is really more serious than the paragraph above would indicate. Dangerous accidents are happily rare, but they do happen, and can be partly attributed to the confusion caused by a medley of traffic lanes. Around the subway kiosk the constant presence of parked cabs, and the buses and street cars which stop there, make it an especially dangerous point. The autoist himself is in an unenviable position. Having voluntarily relinquished the use of an auto because of its inevitable annoyances at Harvard, I can speak for both motorist and pedestrian on this point.

It is admittedly easier to critize than to offer a remedy. A parking garage for University members would go far to relieve the pressure, and in the great days of yore there was wealth, and men who gave thereof for building endowments. Today that is perhaps a vain dream. If so, it would at any rate be inexpensive and humane to have the problem surveyed by a student of city-planning. Something might come of it, if he avoided being hit by the Lechmere Limited. Nicholas Healy, II 2L.