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Gifford added that a decision to allow thepermit to stand would set a dangerous precedent,allowing a "freeway for McDonald's" to open upoutlets in the Square...
Usually, when the problems of U.S. cities are discussed, the focus is on older places -- New York City or Detroit or Chicago. Los Angeles was always, well, Lotusville. With the Watts riots of 1965 quite forgotten by most, if L.A. had a real problem (besides freeway traffic and smog), it was how to protect pedestrians from the roller skaters at Venice Beach. Now the world knows better. L.A. is what lies in store for everyone, unless Americans stop wishing on a star...
...seat-of-the-pants introduction to America's highway misery, try rattling down the joint-jangling Southwest Freeway in the shadow of the Washington Monument. On this long-neglected strip of pavement, a washboard ripple effect experts call rutting jiggles the front wheels into a dervish dance. Farther along in a newly rebuilt section, potholes already lurk, like so many blacktop booby traps...
...display at the New York Auto Show has a range of 100 miles per charge and can go from 0 to 60 in 25 seconds. With a top speed of 65 m.p.h., it can hold its own on the freeway. It is much more than a "glorified golf cart," as Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca points out, adding, "You can get a speeding ticket in this...
Nowhere has massive, sudden growth struck more dramatically than Orange County. Robert Haskill, 39, a Newport Beach insurance man who is a fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways...