Traffic Problems
By the end of 1922 with all the water works put in place, and the population in CoveVille was bursting at its seams. The industrial district was placed slightly out of town in order to avoid the farmland, but this setup created communting problems. People leaving along CliffSide Road to the east side of town had to navigate a maze of neighborhood streets in order to reach the highway. This meant the industry jobs were simply too far of a drive for most of CliffSide residences.
The council had spent years worth of discussions and debatestrying to find a good solution to the problem. One idea was to upgrade the neighborhood streets into higher speed roads, but residence balked at the idea as it would bring too much noise and traffic to an already busy section of the neighborhood. Another idea was to put in an expensive and expansive bus transit system. But residence weren't ready to pay the heafty price for public transit in a town small enough for most everybody knows most every person in town.
Ultimately it was decided a higher speed large traffic road was needed to completely bypass the neighborhood streets. The road would go directly from the south end of CliffSide Road, cut through the middle of the neighborhood and farmland to terminate at Industrial Road. This plan was chosen as an existing road would be upgraded from street to road and only a couple of properties would be resumed.
First thing was to upgrade the gravel street. Construction began in April of 1924
By December of 1924 most the street was fully upgraded and three homes needed to be resumed. Notice was given to the residence before construction even began, so there was plenty of time for them to find a new place until the area is rezoned after construction.
During construction it was decided a 2nd street basically running along the busy road wasn't needed so work started on removing the street in favor of new residential property.
Proper planning wasn't taken into consideration with the homes along this portion of road, notice was given to the sims living along the road and construction was delayed for three months as the sims worked to relocate.
With all the homes in the area taken care of and the extra street resumed, workers began on reworking the land for new zoning.
With the road leading directly to a street connected to the highway further construction was placed on temporary hold to see how effective the new road was. Many felt the road wasn't doing any good at all so instead of provoking riots and protests, it was easy to simply stop work for a couple of months. In those couple of months however, traffic along the connecting street quickly increased well over the threashold of such a small street and sims along CliffSide suddenly found they were closer to work. However there were still too many sims taking alternate farming roads and causing far too much congestion for the farmers. Work quickly began to continue work on extending the road out to industrial road.
The road was completed in March of 1926 and by July of 1926 the congestion along the dirt roads and the neighborhood streets died down. Residence even praised the city council for the reduction of noise in their sleepy neighborhoods.
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