Word: highway
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None of the forecasters seem to have any good solution for the traffic problem, though they count on automated, and possibly underground, highways. McLuhan and others predict that both the wheel and the highway will be obsolete, giving way to hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been...
...international involvements, Zambia's single most important source of oil is "the Great North Road" that connects it-sort of-with Tanzania. Winding for more than 1,000 miles through rain forests, game plains and mountain ranges, the road may well be the world's worst international highway. Its dizzy hairpin turns were scraped out and leveled (often with dragged thornbushes) by African tribesmen working off their tax debts. Along its flat stretches, the road is little more than a trail of treacherous sand or soap-slick mud. Black, blinding rains and eerie mists make...
...that it would seem M.I.T. would merely have to have a number of scientific and defense agencies put the pressure on the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to stop any Inner Belt route inimicable to the Institute. (The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the highway...
M.I.T.'s president and chairman of the Corporation left a variety of other points obscured. For example, they constantly referred to a large number of laboratories that would be damaged by the highway, but did not consistently indicate how many (5) would actually be destroyed. As a partial result, the Boston Globe reported the next morning that nine (or ten, depending on how you count) laboratories would be "up-rooted." The M.I.T. officials also constantly emphasized the possible disruption to experiments from vibrations, and yet their discussion was almost totally couched in generalities. One is left to wonder how serious...
...list of questions could be extended, but to do so would miss one of the major reasons why M.I.T. doesn't want the Belt Route either intruding upon or adjacent to its campus: the Institute opposes the highway both as a physical barrier to related developments (like Technology Square, and the new NASA research center) and an impediment to M.I.T.'s expansion westward. It was for this reason that M.I.T. did not differentiate between the "rail-road" route and the Portland-Albany St. route, which lies to the West and would not take a significant number of the Institute...