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Hasn’t Atlanta Grown Too Big For This? Motorists are just as much in terested as the street car riders in building up sentiment which will clear our streets of any and all ob structions to the free movement of traffic. Automobiles make up 78 per cent of vehicles using the downtown streets, according to the Mayor’s Traffic Survey. Even a small per cent of them parked at the curb can delay thousands of other motorists and street car riders who have already learned that Atlanta is no longer a “street carnival town.” You see street carnivals in villages but long ago we barred them in Atlanta because traffic was too heavy and we needed all the street space we had. Yet we permit a condition that blocks the streets just as effec tively as if a street carnival had pitched its tents along the curb. And all business suffers, for traffic jams keep customers away. Rows of parked cars along our busy downtown streets have the same effect as a street carnival would, the same as if one-third of our already narrow streets were fenced off. Either one or the other re duces the street width to a narrow lane through which all traffic must travel single-file, causes congestion, slows up all traffic. Our interest in it is that traffic congestion delays the street cars, delays the 275,000 passengers Atlanta’s street cars carry every day. We want to give those 275,000 the best and speediest service possible. If your business makes it neces sary for you to bring your automo bile into the congested downtown section, why not park it in a garage? And urge others to do the same. CITIZEN Georgia POWER WHEREVER COMPANY A W E SERVE