Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urged by local residents to oppose the eight-lane expressway, the University briefly considered recommending that the state take a thorough look at the metropolitan area's transportation problems before building the Belt. Harvard sent a statement to M.I.T. and Boston University in the hope that the three universities could take a common position...
...would have opposed the Inner Belt only on conditional grounds. It would have suggested that the original problems that prompted the planning of the Belt--almost two decades ago--have changed considerably. As a result, the statement would have urged the state to delay any firm decision on the expressway until a comprehensive new transportation study of the metropolitan area could be made...
What little restraint there is on spending has resulted not from Johnson's pleas, but from inflation and the tight money it has brought. High construction costs forced South Dakota to delay a $125,000 building for a school for the blind; a $70.5 million New Orleans expressway project was held up a second time when no underwriters could be found; bond issues were deferred in Cincinnati because interest rates were just too steep...
...Losers. There are some exceptions to the success story. The 7¾-mile Chicago Skyway has been unable to meet its interest payments on time; the free, federally sponsored Dan Ryan Expressway runs a parallel route, so Chicago Skyway traffic is about half of what was estimated. In West Virginia, a turnpike from Charleston (pop. 85,000) to Princeton (pop. 20,000 and not to be confused with Princeton, N.J.) runs "from nowhere to nowhere," according to critics. The route is losing money because the links with Interstate 64 and Interstate 77 will not be completed until approximately...
...after an attempted gangland killing, Royko sadly noted the decline in the "quality of indignant statements." If enough such statements "come pouring out after someone is shot or blown up," he wrote, "it is almost as good as solving the crime." When a Polish alder man proposed renaming an expressway after the Polish General Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Royko explained why the idea would never work. "In fact, 98% of all policemen cannot spell it, so it would be impossible for anyone to get a ticket...