Word: expressways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...geography have bestowed on the city a curious destiny as a metaphysical place on the edge of ordinary life. "It's the end of the railroad line. It's the end of the bus line. It's the end of the airline. It's the end of the expressway," says Barry Durman, the mission's director. "Once you get here, where...
TRAVEL: For those who trouble to venture beyond the expressway, the character and color of the frontier are alive and well...
...walk under the expressway and emerge in the North End, the centerpiece of the trail and the cradle of democracy, as the trail's publicists will tell you. The neighborhood's charm is not lost on us, especially when contrasted with the prepackaged history of Fanueil Hall...
That feeling struck TIME Correspondent Thomas McCarroll the day he set out for a luncheon interview with William Simon at the financier's summer home on Long Island. It took McCarroll 75 minutes just to get off Manhattan Island. Then he found himself on an expressway covered with what seemed like "a million cars. By the time I reached Simon's home, he couldn't do the interview," says McCarroll. "I apologized profusely, blamed the traffic and apologized some more." Simon rescheduled the interview, but McCarroll's useless round trip, which should have taken four hours, consumed more than seven...
...road rebuilding is a budget-busting enterprise. A stretch of Chicago's long-neglected Dan Ryan Expressway that is being rebuilt and widened in places from eight lanes to ten will cost $210 million for just three miles of road. Illinois is getting 90% of the money from the U.S. Government, but that source is not expanding. Federal highway outlays -- financed mostly by gasoline and other excise taxes -- increased from $6.1 billion in fiscal 1977 to $12.8 billion in 1987, barely keeping up with inflation. TRIP estimates the cost of repairing the 278,400 miles of highways in poor...