Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passed, by a 317-to-24 vote in the House, a $90 million program to develop high-speed intercity rail service. The program, already approved in a similar form by the Senate, aims to lessen highway congestion by improving commuter service with trains that will go up to 150 miles an hour, initially on the Washington-New York-Boston...
...traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy night on a broad new highway, might give a glimmer of a truer judgment: the strong and affluent U.S. can conquer traffic congestion-and is well along the road toward doing...
Mating the vehicle to the needs of man has been a challenge for a good many centuries. Around 700 B.C., Assyrian King Sennacherib undertook to keep chariots from parking along a main highway. ROYAL ROAD, LET NO MAN DECREASE IT, said the no-parking sign, and any man who decreased the road was soon deceased. Ancient Rome banned all women from driving chariots, and decreed that no one could drive near the Colosseum during the gladiator-baiting. Europe's early roads charged stiff tolls to pay for improvements, such as sufficient widening "to let a man pass with...
...1850s, when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
...present period of making the road fit the environment. Land use, the natural setting, social conditions and human psychology are its concerns. It acknowledges that the private car is and for scores of years will be the most used form of transportation. Its expression is the U.S. Interstate Highway system, and its symbol is the red, white and blue shield that seems to say, "Heave a sigh of relief and get moving...