Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Highway Constructiveness
...Your Essay, "Ode to the Road" [Sept. 10], was most refreshing. We in the traffic engineering field are plagued by the prophets who contend that despite tremendous improvement in highway design and traffic control, we are destined to prolonged congestion. These prophets conclude that a gain of 6,000,000 vehicles per year in the U.S. is too much to absorb. This is ridiculous, but it takes little to convince a disgruntled motorist that such prognostications are valid. Traffic is being handled more efficiently now than ever before, and this situation will continue to improve. Your constructive piece should alleviate...
Such an incentive system has existed since 1954 for civilian Defense Department employees, who last year collected $2,351,980 for 63,581 suggestions that led to savings of $66,171,148. > Approved, in the Senate Public Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant...
...neon jungie of on-premise signs of used-car lots, drive-in restaurants and souvenir stands on the out skirts of most U.S. towns. The new bills leave these untouched. Instead, they call for elimination of all billboards for 660 feet on either side of a federal highway or primary roadway outside commercial or industrial areas...
...foreseeable future, the battles will increase, the crisis will become even less quiet. Litter must go somewhere. Highway businesses will expand. Cars and washing machines wear out but will not disintegrate. Pulp, paper and wood so far come only from trees. And an expanding population must have more power and more factories and more homes to live...