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l J. Last week the Board of Aldermen approved 19 pedestrian bridges in the master campus plan for Georgia State College and those bridges, as a college spokesman said , "will get 25,000 students off the city streets so they won't be run over." streets and between buildings so low they would interfere with street traffic, nor so many of them that they would blot out the sunshine . But neither should we preclude them where they would add beauty, aid movement and improve safety. The number of students was a projection into the future; 10 years hence, when the college's enrollment is expect~d to more than double. Ra ther, each bridge proposal should be judged on its merits-within very broad guidelines if necessary-so that we can take full advantage of present and future architectural and engineering knowledge. By approving these bridges on their merit, and shelving a proposed ordinance which would · have forbidd en their construction, the aldermen also were looking to the future. The proposal is so restrictive that it would present all sorts of blocks to some very progressive and exciting plans to move pedestrian and vehicular traffic more efficien tly and s~cly. · There must be some. safeguards, to be sure. We can't have pedestrian bridges across . ~. I I L • Each proposal should be carefully considered by city planners, traffic engineers and all others concerned. Certainly each should be studied by the Atlanta Civic Des ign Commission which was specifically set up to review all such matters and to make r ecommendations. C ' I The Board of Aldermen is, and of course will be, the final authority. But the aldermen should not hamstring themselves by setting up unreasonably restrictive standards. • -J , �