Word: crosswalk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchester, England last June a matronly market woman named Mary Agnes Smith, walking with her grandchild, paused at a crosswalk to let motor traffic go by. A lorry owned by Hall & Pickles rumbled from one direction, the motor car of a Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden purred from the other. Right before Mrs. Smith's horrified eyes they crashed. Mrs. Smith screamed to her grandchild to run, then collapsed. She says she has not felt right since...
...Cambridge Committee on Traffic Problems. The system proposed will not do away with the Boston Elevated rotunda in the center of the Square. A traffic signal tower is to be placed close to the rotunda, with individual signals on the adjacent corners, to aid the problem of the crosswalk...