Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result, Atlanta has: public schools desegregated through all twelve grades; an $18 million stadium home for its first major league baseball team, the Atlanta Braves (who will move from Milwaukee at season's end); a $9,000,000 auditorium-exhibition hall complex; a $14.5 million freeway link between the downtown area and the airport (fifth busiest in the U.S.) that cuts driving time 23 minutes; 20,000 new jobs yearly since 1962, which is double what Allen was shooting for and has given Atlanta the lowest unemployment rate of any major U.S. city. Only his dream of a rapid...
...road, but will carry more than 20% of all traffic. It is a bit less than half complete, and to travel it now is to see the ideal when one is on some freshly built stretch with not a car in sight, and the obsolete when the sign says FREEWAY ENDS and the car is dumped onto a truck-jammed road bearing the telltale black-and-white shield that identifies the old federal-aid highway system. Interstate 40, for example, turns into Route 66, once famed in song and legend, and now a dreary bore lined with signs like...
...green-and-white signs are the same. The little clusters of commerce-at-the-cloverleaf are eminently the same. Even the jargon on the menus of the identical restaurants ("char-broiled steak smothered in mushrooms sauteed in fresh country butter") is the same. Yet, happily enough, as the freeway driver highballs from one similar place to another, leisurely and nostalgic souls who want to sample the color and culture of America's side roads can do so readily...
...From the freeway misery...
...truly congested cities, the expanses of concrete built to unclog traffic are often jammed almost from the moment they open. The Long Island Expressway, designed for 80,000 by 1970, now carries up to 170,000 a day; and the Hollywood Freeway, intended for 120,000 by 1970, now conveys nearly twice that many. "This is the only business where, if you have record crowds the first day, you consider it a failure," says Chicago's Project Supervisor Patrick J. Athol. To technophobes, this proves the futility of building roads-but that is something like not building schools...