Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WORKPLACE. A surprising consequence of the traffic jams brought on by eight collapsed segments of the freeway system was a headlong rush toward the information superhighway. Mayor Richard Riordan announced a grandiose plan to relieve traffic congestion by extensive "telecommuting" -- working from home with computers and faxes. He also spoke of creating "satellite office centers" outside the downtown districts. The Southern California Telecommuting Partnership was organized in the earthquake's aftermath. Its members, a coalition of businessmen and government officials, hope to make telecommuting a viable option for the city, bringing permanent change to the way its work force...
...been unthinkable in their car-worship culture -- they flocked onto commuter trains. Metrolink, the city's embryonic light-rail system, reported a tripling of morning passengers, from 10,000 to 30,000, on its four lines, and last week managed to retain 70% of the new ridership even after freeway detours began to reopen. The most popular by far was the 40-mile ride north to Santa Clarita, a new bedroom community cut off by the fractured Golden State Freeway; its daily ridership jumped from...
Sakina Ellis is at work in her bright orange vest and hard hat. She is guarding a damaged stretch of the Santa Monica Freeway between Fairfax and La Cienega for Caltrans, the state transportation agency. Before her, a small army of gawkers takes in the freeway as if it were a huge, ugly sculpture -- Monument to Human Vanity by Mother Nature. Ellis could probably have taken the day off; both her Van Nuys apartment and new BMW convertible were demolished this morning. But she is actually cheery, meditating on Martin Luther King Jr.: "Just think of all the damage that...
...believes that the Bullock's, which made up part of the mall, probably should have been retrofitted. Similar observations are being made by many regarding the numerous major highways crippled by the quake. After the area's last big temblor, in 1971, L.A. swore it would strengthen its freeway bridges. But costs slowed the project, and the legislature voted down a 2 cents-per-gal. gas tax that might have goosed it along. Infuriatingly, I-10, the most important and hardest hit of the freeways, had been scheduled for retrofitting next month...
...Brooks took his movie project back to the editing-room body shop in hopes of saving the chassis, while Hollywood and the press looked on like rubberneckers at a freeway crash. Release of I'll Do Anything, planned as Columbia Pictures' big Christmas movie, was delayed two months to allow for reshooting. When the film opens next week, only a fragment of one song will remain...