Word: cloverleafs
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...cloverleaf intersections which garland Randall's Island and the related flora which cover with concrete the once-lovely slopes of Riverside Park were first propagated in the soil of Prussia. Our housing projects proclaim . . . the precedents of Holland and of Sweden; nor is the tradition of England forgotten in the latest improvements of New York's parks. . . . "All practice originates in theory. Everything that is made must be first imagined. . . . The problems which confront each great city in Europe and in America are not so unique in character as to demand separate philosophies or special techniques of analysis...
...Manhattan into a series of huge, self-contained blocks, each circled by a "ring street." The sides of each oblong block (about 15 present city blocks long) would be two avenues; its ends, two cross streets. This system of ring streets and one-way traffic, like a highway cloverleaf, would eliminate all traffic intersections...
...Chattanooga a want ad summarized the local situation: "WANTED: Registered druggist-young or old, deaf or dumb. Must have license and walk without crutches. Apply Cloverleaf Drug Store...
...remedy is Dr. McClintock's "limited way," a road following hydraulic principles by "delivering traffic as in a sealed conduit past all conflicting eddies." It has four elements: 1) A dividing strip down the road's centre ; 2) over and underpasses with cloverleaf detours at every intersection; 3) denial to abutting property of direct access to the highway; 4) acceleration and deceleration lanes for fast and slow traffic. All four forms of friction are largely cured by these four elements. But few roads exemplify them all. One example is the Worcester (Mass.) Turnpike. It used an abandoned trolley...
...dining hall is separate, across the stream, by pine-needle path and rustic footbridge. Small owls and bears, wrought in bronze, light the way. In the dining-room, the furniture is heavy mahogany, carved with a cloverleaf pattern. The 14-foot table seats 30 people...