Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rover carrying seven Greek Cypriots bounced up the road to the tiny village of Ayios Sozomenos. Though only twelve miles distant from the capital city of Nicosia, the village is centuries away in time. To reach it, one travels four miles along a rutted road off the main asphalt highway and then some two miles over goat trails before the cluster of tile-roofed houses is dis covered crowded between a dry watercourse and a steep mesa of grey rock...
...most important round in the legislative battle will come next Thursday, he said. At that time a hearing on a fourth bill will be held. This little-known proposal, if passed, would impose a moratorium on all new highway construction, including the underpasses, until at least March, 1965. The bill would create a "Greater Boston Transportation Agency," whose duty it would be to draw up a balanced transportation plan for the city. The new agency would try to increase cooperation between the MTA and such highway-building groups as the Metropolitan District Commission and the Department of Public Works...
...Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...
...Sports was sponsored by the biweekly L'Auto-Journal, whose editors founded the Syndicat National des Automobilistes, and have, since October, received 370,000 applications for membership. The syndicat's immediate goal is to "put an end to the scorn with which public powers treat the fundamental highway and traffic problems." The meeting started 30 minutes late because, as the announcer pointed out, of "slow-moving traffic," and ended tumultuously when the hall was darkened and the audience was suddenly showered with thousands upon thousands of official-looking traffic tickets that fluttered down from the domed ceiling...
...same train. When the service was extended to five new cities last fall, a jokester writing in Le Figaro saw it as a step toward the ultimate solution of driving problems in France. By hauling cars everywhere by rail, he pointed out, there would be an end to highway accidents, driver fatigue, and wear and tear on highways. For those who dislike driving in town, the old city streetcar lines could be reactivated to permit the hauling of cars by rail. Best of all, it would also be possible to remove perishable items like tires and batteries, and even motors...