Word: parkway
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...that may prevent transportation agencies from building new roads, or the inability to use roads for economic development by, say, adding a new exit to attract businesses. Some officials get queasy about locking themselves into long leases; Colorado officials already regret offering a 99-year lease for the Northwest Parkway. Others are turned off by the hard sell from investment bankers who advise states on some deals and bid on others. "This should be the last option," says Texas state senator John Carona, "not the first...
...against not only our own selfishness but our own selflessness, too. Instead of rigorous four-week language immersion classes, we should wander around in foreign countries poor and planless. We should skip out on repairing homes on the Mississippi coastline and join in on traveling up the Natchez Trace Parkway in a truck. We should substitute out bringing esteemed literary editors coffee for scrawling our own poems on the backs of napkins...
...year’s end, the University’s Allston planners are expected to release a master plan for the new Allston campus. We hope that their report will address a looming issue: what, if anything, will be done with Soldiers Field Road, the four-lane, limited-access parkway that snakes between the Charles River and the Business School. If Allston is to become a central part of Harvard’s campus instead of a mere satellite locale, University planners should, with the support of city and Commonwealth officials, accelerate existing plans to place this massively obstructive presence...
...safety on the road. The Cambridgeport Neighborhood Initiative successfully urged authorities to place a light and crosswalk at the intersection of Memorial Drive and Pleasant Street, said the group’s Co-chair Eli Yarden. But it’s up to residents to stop using the parkway as a high-speed commuter highway, he added. “What is needed, is to set and enforce the [25 miles-per-hour] speed limit,” Yarden said. The Department of Conservation and Recreation—a group charged with securing safety along Memorial Drive?...
...long corridor of his new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It's the corridor that's in midair. Actually, it's not simply a corridor. It's more a kind of covered bridge to nowhere that cantilevers 54 m across and 18 m above the city's West River Parkway. And then there's the other window, the mirrored one. But we'll get to that later. By now you will have begun to understand that Nouvel's buildings can be hard to pin down. His name is one variant of the French word for new, and he does...