2/19/1954
While there was unanimous agreement to make Seventh and Eighth Avenues one way, there were minor dissents on other proposals for traffic reform. The major recommendations included:

Abolition of the one and three hour limits on parking in non-restricted areas.

Extension of the rule barring standing, loading and unloading during rush hours to various key routes in all boroughs.

Relentless use of two trucks to remove illegally parked cars from critical areas.

Widening of the alternate-side-parking program to clean streets and dislodge "all-day" parkers.

More painting of guide lines, chanelization techniques and other engineering improvements to help move traffic more freely.

Installation of 4,000 to 6,000 more parking meters this year after the present program of installing 30,000 of the devices is completed.

Additional "Walk" and "Don't Walk" signs to guide pedestrians safely across busy intersections.

Cutting down on abuses of special parking privileges and elimination of some persons from the exempt list.

The Traffic Commissioner also announced that the no-standing rule would be revoked on Fourteenth Street but that parking still would be barred. Fourteenth Street was one of the five major Manhattan crosstown routes where the drastic rule was established on Dec. 1. It will continue on the others – Twenty-third, Thirty-Fourth, Forty-second and Fifty-seventh Streets.

5/19/1954
Seventh and Eighth Avenues will be restricted to one-way operation starting June 6.

The change-over, ot be in effect for a trial period of one year, was announced yesterday.

Ninth Avenue has been southbound and Tenth Avenue northbound for more than six years.

6/11/1955
        The New York City Omnibus Corporation as asked the Board of Estimate to make Seventh and Eighth Avenues two-way streets again. In support of its petition the company made public yesterday the results of "several thousand" traffic checks. They proved the one-way trial "had failed completely to relieve crosstown traffic, which was the express purpose of its inception," the company said.