Word: pedestrian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...station permit), she secured the tower of the National Bank of Tulsa for KOTV's transmitter. Wearing shorts, she clambered up 400 ft. on an outside ladder to inspect the tower installation. (During this ceremony, a startled workman dropped a wrench to the street below, killing a woman pedestrian from Sapulpa, Okla...
Rotary traffic, the miracle merry-go-round that would turn Harvard Square into a pedestrian playground, no longer exists. Recent changes in the new stop-lights and street directions now shuttle traffic along most of the old routes, and according to City Engineer Edgar Davis, "it's only the businessmen who have benefited much from the experiment...
Measure for Measure. In Springfield, Ohio, Truck Driver Clifford Ellis, charged with drunken driving and knocking down a pedestrian, was fined $150 and sentenced to "spend as much time in jail as the victim spends in the hospital...
Another plan would make Massachusetts Avenue a westerly one-way thoroughfare below Central Square. Returning traffic would use Mt. Auburn Street to reach Boston. Here again, the large volume of pedestrian student traffic and the narrowness of Mt. Auburn Street make this another dubious solution...
...single step that will ultimately do the greatest good is the removal of the Harvard Square subway kiosk. Should the MTA got around to establishing a Porter Square station, the pill-box would either be relocated or at least subjected to much less pedestrian traffic. Simultaneously, much of the bus transferring would be moved up to Porter Square, with a subsequent ease on Harvard Square motorists. Rerouting of all unnecessary trucks around the Square would further the solution...