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...Motors is outfitting a convoy of 10 Buick LeSabres that are scheduled to make a test run next year on a modified stretch of I-15 outside San Diego. Five leading Japanese automakers, meanwhile, are members of a government-led consortium that turned a four-mile stretch of new expressway near the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics into a smartway proving ground...
BORN: Feb. 16, 1936, Holly Hill, Fla. EDUCATION: Florida State U, B.A., 1958 FAMILY: Wife, Ginny; five children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: Naval Reserve, 1953-61 OCCUPATION: Management-services-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Republican nominee for Governor, 1994 ADDRESS: 1730 Northeast Expressway, Atlanta...
This is not the Hamptons--this area of Speonk, East Moriches, Center Moriches strung out along the Old Montauk Highway, which was long ago supplanted by the ever widening Long Island Expressway. Here it is still around 1948. The people work for a living, know one another's business, tend to their green squares of land and (most of the time) love America. Take the Long Island Rail Road from Manhattan, and you understand these places at once. After the conductor calls out the suburbs, the names of the stations get rougher: "Patchogue!" "Moriches!" You are too far east...
...vehicles amass on the double-decker sandwich of steel overhead, Boston's other Green Monster, the Central Artery. The Artery was built in the 1950s to funnel 75,000 cars each day into and out of the city; today, over 200,000 cars a day crawl along the outdated expressway. Back below on street level, the honking of horns and the colorful shouts of angry drivers harmonize with the rumble and roar of the bulldozers, cement mixers and dump trucks beginning the construction of the proposed direct underground rail link between North and South Station...
...small portion of the Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project, known (not-so) affectionately to Bostonians as the Big Dig. Scheduled for completion by 2004, the Big Dig is arguably one of the most ambitious urban planning projects ever undertaken, headlined by the creation of eight lanes of new underground expressway to replace the existing artery and the construction of the now-complete third harbor tunnel connecting South Boston to Logan Airport. The depression of the Artery will also clear the way for 26 acres of open park space downtown...