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Appendix B

It is our opinion and we so recommend, that the more sturdy of the Norway Spruce, Ash, and several other varieties which are already killed, be allowed to remain standing with the vines upon them and that the more healthy trees in each of the variety groups be entirely freed from the vines. Only in this way can we hope to save them from early destruction by these parasitic vines. We also recommend that considerable thinning be done in the respective groups of trees so as to admit a freer circulation of light and air and that new plantings be made where too much thinning has been done because of the death of trees. Many of the Ash group have already reached the point where they are not worth saving. 2. Traffic • The rapid development of housing accommodations for the women students east of the Forestry makes it imperative that we provide well lighted traffic arteries through the Forestry. These should be hard-surfaced walks which will be usable under all weather conditions. We now have some cinder walks through there, but these are too soft during bad weather. The location of these walks has some bearing upon possible traffic arteries through the Forestry, because walks that parallel traffic arteries are safer at night than those which are independent routes among the trees. The Board of Trustees at one time discussed the continuing of Gregory Drive through to Lincoln Avenue and decided not to do so because such a drive would carry too much cross traffic through our south campus. The terminating of Gregory Avenue at Goodwin Avenue and turning it north gives an outlet from the west into Urbana without making it direct enough so as to encourage its use as a short cut. We are glad to know that the opening of Goodwin Avenue can be counted on for next year. There is also a possibility of continuing Gregory Drive east to the Forestry and then turning it south either to the present Pennsylvania Avenue or to our own South Drive extended. If South Drive can be opened up from Sixth Street clear through to Lincoln Avenue, we believe that this would be a better solution than to extend Gregory Drive through the Forestry at the present time. As the south campus expands, we must look forward to its invasion by motor busses, for cross transportation, and South Drive seems to be the best route for them, and for through traffic between the two cities, and we believe that the development of this Drive should be made with the view to its being an unrestricted traffic artery, but that traffic on Gregory Drive should be controlled by our present system of stop lights. If South Drive is extended through to Lincoln Avenue, there would seem to be no justification for keeping Maple Avenue (Pennsylvania Avenue) open. We, therefore, suggest that an