Word: expressways
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...cars and trucks heading west may leave the Jersey Turnpike, cross the Delaware north of Philadelphia to reach the eleven-year-old Pennsylvania Turnpike. Once across Pennsylvania, they may be able to cut westward to Chicago without intersection or stop sign along new expressways planned for northern Ohio and Indiana. At its northern end, the Jersey Turnpike will link with the highspeed New York State Thruway, already under construction between Manhattan, Buffalo and the Pennsylvania border. With another twist of a cloverleaf, it can join New York's present parkway system into New England, zip up Connecticut...
...groups are formulating the basic outlines for the reform. One, the Cambridge City Planning Board, makes studies and recommends specific proposals to City Manager John B. Atkinson and the City Council. Another, Harvard's Graduate School of Design, contributes additional ideas. Plans have been drawn up for building an expressway from downtown Boston through North Station and Cambridge to the Concord Turnpike, for moving the Cambridge subway yards north, and for eliminating many of the Harvard-owned tenements. As a first step, the state has just approved construction of the section of the proposed expressway from downtown Boston to North...