Word: lane
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Watching a putrid diesel bus slowly slogging along under unused electrical tram wires has to be one of the most existentially challenging situations in life. You could move into the "fast" lane to add a few years to your life, but then you'd be stuck behind legions of losers trying to turn left. Somehow, those canny Cambridge traffic controllers never figured that turn arrows at intersections could save people a lot of aggravation. So you resign yourself to a slightly shorter ride in a continuous cloud of instant smog...
Scheme Z, a 16-lane, 11-story structure slated for construction in East Cambridge, was approved by then-Massachusetts Environmental Affairs Significant opposition from those in the Cambridge community fearing increased pollution and traffic...
...alternatives presented at the press conference, 8.ID Mod 5, had already won approval from the Cantabrigians who had opposed Scheme Z. Its plan calls for a 10-lane bridge across the Charles River and a three -lane tunnel under the river...
...reduced river-tunnel plan, estimated to cost $1.13 billion over nine years of construction, shrinks the proposed river tunnel from three to two lanes and reduces its length by more than one third. It would add two loop ramps on the north side of the river and would have a 12-lane bridge...
...Lexington's furniture factories, picking up a voter or 10 on its way between Greensboro's downtown and Burlington's outlet malls; onward, ever onward, until it comes to rest 160 miles later among the black neighborhoods of Durham. It is narrow, as narrow in some spots as one lane of the I-85 Interstate highway. Its friends call it "a string of pearls." Most people settle for "snake" or "worm." But what it is, obviously and manifestly, is a gerrymander...