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...Francisco's pragmatic, perceptive and somewhat excitable M. Justin Herman. San Franciscans were shocked into action by the state-built Embarcadero Freeway, which they discovered was barreling along the edge of town, cutting off the view of their cherished waterfront. The resultant outcry halted the expressway (which now leads to nothing in particular), and incidentally aroused the city's leaders into more organized and enlightened planning. Herman presides over 991 acres of new projects that total $655 million in private investment, $81,720,400 in federal grants, $79,996,000 in noncash grants-in-aid and tax credits from...
...Superhighway of the Sun," a four-lane expressway that avoids all cities and villages on its course, will move steadily southward and eventually connect with Sicily at the Strait of Messina, serving as a vital economic life line for the entire region. It is only the latest of Italy's ambitious efforts to help Il Mezzogiorno (which means midday) move, in one great leap, from a medieval society directly into the age of automation...
...walk. Desperate for a way to reduce the growing crush, cities are seeking to improve their mass transit with new ideas, new systems and new equipment. Last week American Machine & Foundry announced that 18 U.S. cities are considering elevated monorail systems. Pittsburgh is building a one-mile experimental "skybus" expressway over which remote-control trains of rubber-tired buses will be guided by an I-shaped center rail. And the President fortnight ago ordered the Commerce Department to study plans for a high speed (about 150 m.p.h.) rail service along the 380-mile "megalopolis" between Boston and Washington. It would...
...church stands strangely inside a clover leaf of the expressway near Florence, and serves as a spiritual halfway house for travelers. "The general form is that of a tent," explains Michelucci, who designed its sway-backed curves with architectural as well as spiritual freedom in mind. He spent hours daily on the job, changing details in concrete and carpentry...
...proposed expenditure," Bernays asserted, "is a waste of the taxpayers' money; the expressway would serve no useful purpose since the Turnpike extension parallels Memorial Drive. The Committee opposes the creation of a Chinese Wall between the people and the riverfront, and it opposes encroachment on play and recreation areas...