Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of us do attend classes. Some of us do support the President's action in Viet Nam. Some of us don't wear miniskirts or jump suits to a formal affair. Some of us haven't been in a wreck on the L.A. freeway. Some of us are human...
U.C.L.A.'s Institute of Government and Public Affairs, now five years old, is studying the feasibility of subways for freeway-clogged Los Angeles, electric cars to ease smog. It also set up an "urban observatory" two days after the Watts riots to probe the causes of the violence. The University of California's Berkeley campus counts more than 400 community projects, many of them aimed at improving the education...
Inevitably, as transit service declines and roads improve, more autos not only crowd the routes to town but choke the city streets as well. Chairman George L. DeMent of the Chicago Transit Authority understandably bemoans "the 5 o'clock shadow of smog, noise, tension and wasted time." Freeway tie-ups have multiplied to the point where airborne traffic spotters in at least 25 cities now broadcast advice about how to dodge them. Frequently, a new freeway built to carry 100,000 cars a day no sooner opens than it is inundated by twice that many. Besides, one mile...
Whatever future awaits long-distance trains, the rail is being considered a possible solution to the worsening problem of getting people in and out of big cities with dispatch, efficiency and safety. While one lane of a freeway can move only 2,400 persons an hour past a given point, a train can move 30,000. To encourage a revival of mass transit by rail, the Government gave the movement a nudge in 1961 with a law that henceforward mass transportation must be considered a part of city planning. With close to $200 million of loans and grants, Washington...
...forced to use fees to ration scarce downtown space for both trucks and private cars. New York, for example, is already considering raising tolls for incoming bridge and tunnel traffic during rush hours. With the new emphasis on national beautification-and the successful citizen protests against ugly bridge and freeway plans in San Francisco and elsewhere-highway engineers also need to learn that transportation systems, as Under Secretary Boyd puts it, "must give a predominant emphasis to esthetics." If the U.S. is to head off its looming transportation crisis, the job has to be started soon. Otherwise, the penalty...