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...THERE you take the Southern State Parkway out of New York City, running east along the coast, and you don't stop driving until you can taste the salt in the air. Along the way you pass the Fire Island bridge, a monument in concrete and steel to the relentless vision of a man named Robert Moses. Moses ran for governor of the state in '34 and lost, but he ran the state anyway, with his convoys of cement mixers and cranes. Moses created most of central Long Island in his own image--flat and gray and cement-hard...
Spokesmen cited several flaws in the EIS, including outdated information on the proposed Alewife Parkway station, increased congestion in construction areas, and differing methods of subway construction that the MBTA has proposed...
WASHINGTON--The Department of Transportation yesterday announced grants amounting to more than $128 million to aid the construction of a subway extension of Red Line from Harvard extension of the Line from Harvard Square to Alewife Parkway...
...proposal to halt extension of the Red Line pending further study of the impact of a terminal located near the Alewife Parkway in North Cambridge is currently on the table in the City Council. Although the council did not take up the issue last night, it will consider the moratorium question after meeting with MBTA Chairman Robert Kiley, who has been invited to a council session in October...
...brevity, Uncle captures the duration of a life: the young man loitering in coffee shops and listening to radical debates; his flourishing business career; his later years, when he lies beside a pool in Miami pondering the ultimate adversary: "If the American dream ever lived on Stegman Parkway, it entered Irv's heart as an unacknowledged optimism about the mechanics of time." Only in old age does he learn to mourn his own mortality. "We are making something out of nothing," he cries. "And what we are making is no good...