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The article contradicts the notion that traffic lights affect the traffic flow in New York City. Traffic lights have lessened congestion wherever they have been applied in the city. The traffic lights in the city are automatically operated which reduced labor cost to $3 per light signal. The placement of traffic signals is usually done after a survey of the scene by the officials of the police department.

The article features Colonel Sidney H. Bingham's prescription for solving traffic congestion in the U.S. in 1950. Bingham, chairman of New York City's Board of Transportation, believes that it is possible to have a city without having a traffic jam. The colonel's idea maybe summarized by an imaginary city called Binghamtown. Theodore Caplow, a PhD from the University of Minnesota, believes that the crisis of transportation threatens the entire scheme of urban living.

The article focuses on the Eno Foundation for Traffic Control Inc., an institution that studies parking, congestion and traffic signals in Connecticut. It was established by the late millionaire William Phelps Eno. The institution has been influential in helping communities reorganize their traffic policies. The institution's founder has written the first traffic rules ever printed and distributed to drivers.

The author reflects on the importance of color coding on direction signs helping to solve highway hodgepodge. He argues that the U.S. is becoming acutely conscious of the need for a vast speed-up in modern highway construction. He suggests that this color guide should be of considerable benefit even to the extent of employing secondary routes for the purpose of relieving traffic congestion.

Focuses on the work of Henry A. Barnes as commissioner of the New York City Traffic department. Expertise of Barnes in traffic; Efforts of Barnes to try to ease the traffic congestion in the city; Criticism of Barnes of the attitude of women driver.