Excerpt from Parking and Traffic Study, Shelby, N. C Two basic requirements of the automobile must be considered in any program to help revitalize Downtown Shelby. Autos need streets on which to move and spaces in which to be stored or parked. In Shelby and in most cities, both of these fundamental requirements are being only partially met by fitting the function of each into the existing grid street pattern. In trying to serve both functions the downtown street system serves neither with efficiency. To meet the needs of today, the downtown area needs a street system which is designed to move vehicles without the interference of pedestrians, conflicting through city traffic, or ad verse turning movements. In addition to this, auto mobile storage should be provided in off-street lots, conveniently located with respect to the main shopping stores, and the major traffic streets. This report is a study of the parking and traffic circulation system presently being used within the Shelby Central Business District. It is being prepared concurrently with a preliminary design plan for the business district. The major emphasis in this report will be centered on exist ing traffic and parking conditions, their deficiencies and possible solutions. The central business district preliminary design plan, using information from this study, locates future parking facilities and indicates future major thoroughfares that are consistent with the overall central business district objectives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.