Word: havener
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more. In these days of double-bedded Nash and reinstituted Lincoln Continental, the lot of the itinerant student has been further eased by the completion of the New Haven by-pass. Wilbur Cross to Merritt, Merritt to Wilbur Cross, the agony of transition will now be a few painless moments of tunnels and parkways and scenic beauty...
...what of New Haven itself, now off the beaten track? Its rutted streets will deteriorate in tranquillity. Its citizens will sleep the suburban sleep. Its institutions will wither...
...simple tape-cutting ceremony, Connecticut opened the New Haven section of the Wilbur Cross Parkway and left the commando-course city traffic to the local citizenry and the Yalies. The result is straight parkway from New York City to the middle of Connecticut...
...West Rock palisades, which dominate New Haven, caused trouble from the start. The highway couldn't cut outside the cliff-that would take traffic too far from the city. It couldn't cut inside them either-the ground was swampy and the land was costly. The only choice was to cut right through them...
Workmen began the job in March, 1948. For a year and a half they drilled and blasted, shovelled and hauled while irate motorists detoured through the red lights, trolley tracks, and back alleys of New Haven...