Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Federal highway program is indeed responsible for a large part of the continuing desecration of the American landscape. California, probably the most beautiful state in the Union, is rapidly being ruined beyond all redemption by freeways. Here on the Peninsula, they are busy blasting the way for an eight-lane freeway. This monstrous road will cut through a scenery of hills and lakes that has been compared to the Lake District in England or Killarney in Ireland. The California Division of Highways simply has too much money and too few restrictions...
Hope T. Seela of Clearview Lane, Lookout Mt., Kentucky, appeared in the Freshman Register in her . the Class of '68 nominated her in December for the Committee, received 80 per cent of the vote...
...looked like the War of Independence all over again. There, in front of George Washington's Revolutionary headquarters in Morristown, N.J., marched a small army of residents wearing tricornered hats and flowing capes, toting vintage muskets and calling fellow citizens to arms. Their enemy? A six-lane superhighway that threatens to slice through the historic part of town. The fight-the-highway movement is not unique to Morristown. As the federal government's $41 billion interstate highway program enters its ninth year, more and more citizens are protesting that the road to faster automobile travel is not worth...
...CANADA, CALIF. In this luxuriant valley eleven miles north of downtown Los Angeles, residents are making a last-ditch stand against a proposed eight-lane speedway that would cut their community in half. Running east-west alongside the town's main thoroughfare, it would link up other northern suburbs but do nothing for the town itself, seems to La Canadans little more than a ruse to collect $60 million in federal grants. The highway department claims that the projected-population figures for La Canada by 1980 necessitate the freeway. Planning Consultant Lyle Stewart retorts: "This area is built...
...ORLEANS. To untangle traffic jams in the city's business district, the Louisiana highway department has proposed an elevated six-lane highway that would skirt the historic French Quarter and parallel the Mississippi River. Preservationists claim the highway will not only destroy the area's flourishing tourist trade, but also defeat their hopes of clearing a view of the Mississippi, long obscured by riverside warehouses. Warns Harnett T. Kane, president of the Louisiana Landmark Society: "It is the greatest single danger now confronting historic New Orleans...