Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that it was to come on. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority withdrew a scheduled $440 million of income tax-exempt bonds because the only bid from underwriters meant a 4.23% interest rate, quite a bit more than had been expected. The bonds would have financed doubling the six-lane width of the 30 miles of turnpike nearest to New York City...
...poor." To which Alinsky replies that the Administration program is "the greatest feeding trough that has come along for the welfare industry in years." Ridiculing the paper-sifting public-welfare bureaucracy, he once snorted: "If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, there must be a 36-lane boulevard to hell paved with surveys...
...thus rejected the City government's plea to delay his decision until a new study of the need for the eight-lane highway could be made. The City Council had contended, in a motion passed Monday, that the possible reduction of tolls on the Boston segment of the Massachusetts Turnpike might eliminate any need for the Inner Belt...
Urged to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route, the council unanimously voted to ask the state for another delay in selecting a path for the eight-lane highway. It questioned the need of any Inner Belt and pledged to travel to the capital to seek the support of the state's Congressional delegation against the road...
...tolls on the turnpike were reduced, Crane argues, more cars and trucks would use it, reducing the usefulness of an Inner Belt. The crucial question is: how much is the Inner Belt a compelling necessity, and how much is it a mere convenience? No doubt if a new eight-lane highway is constructed, traffic will move faster, but is the added speed and efficiency great enough to warrant the destruction the Inner Belt will inevitably cause...