Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phenomenal increase in student and local cars in the Harvard area has evoked much rhetoric from college and city leaders without reaching any feasible solution to the problem of where to put them. In fact, many responsible persons doubt that there is any answer, short of eliminating student cars...
...Local auto density is one of the highest in the nation. Coupled with city streets some of which were well trodden during John Harvard's lifetime, and with 234,000 non-resident vehicles using them every day, a parking problem has resulted...
Chairman of the City Council's traffic committee Edward J. Sullivan, who says there aren't enough police to enforce the laws anyway, wants to ban them altogether for students. City councillor Joseph A. DiGugielmo '29 tends to agree with Ready; a sizeable number of local residents tend to agree with Sullivan...
Councilman Morton claims that enforcement arrangements include letting Harvard and city police walk the streets, arm in arm, ticketing student and local cars alike, giving no quarter, asking none. University police will tag cars illegally parked on University property or obstructing University facilities while the Cambridge police will happly tag anyone. Morton admits that this is a somewhat sporadic arrangement...
...same time, despite the rise in the number of cars registered with the University, local garage owners have reported either a drop in business or a status quo. There have been no increases in the number of students parking at private garages...