Word: overpass
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...vigor in this case contrasts sharply with its so-far lame response to the need for signs in another part of Harvard's domain. I am referring to the need for signs to guide the constant flow of visitors and newcomers walking to and over the broad, featureless overpass by Memorial Hall safely toward their desired destination...
Cambridge traffic officials told me that although the overpass is a public right-of-way, it is under Harvard's control and that Harvard would have to agree to any signs placed there. They then proposed to Harvard a number of designs for signs...
...hopeful that recent discussions between Harvard and residents of mid-Cam-bridge and the Agassiz neighborhood about the plans for improvements to the environs of Memorial Hall may lead to effective signage and other aids to navigation on the overpass. New signs may also reduce the number of hazardous conflicts between bicyclists and pedestrians on the overpass...
...result is an America that is rapidly dividing into two worlds, separated by class, race and drive time. Sheltered in tree-lined streets where the fantasy of a homogeneous middle-class society can still be entertained, many suburbanites know the city mainly as a skyline glimpsed from an overpass or as the place of a shooting reported on the evening news -- or as a pillar of smoke and flame on the horizon...
...silk against silk as Drew sashays toward Billy on the night they might make love. From such subtle signals emerges a lopsided triangle: the strong man and two people independent enough to survive him. Billy had first caught Dutch's attention when he juggled four balls on a railroad overpass. But he and Drew are both jugglers, really, of other people's emotions -- even those of Dutch, whose primal whims toward these two outsiders are to adopt one and have the other killed...