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...systems. Now it is testing a new kind of "people mover" -an aerial tramway akin to a ski lift that may be extended from the city center to the suburbs. The city is also giving downtown shoppers a break; cars have been banned on three streets which have become pedestrian malls. By 1980, Mayor Hubert Dubedout predicts, downtown will be served exclusively by public transport-a pedestrian's paradise, with no automobiles to be seen...
...community groups aren't the only fragmented interests in town that coalesce only to kill an issue they don't like. The Harvard Square Businessmen, after several years of leaderless lethargy, quickly consolidated forces when the 1972 Brattle Street walk project apparently threatened their businesses. The Brattle pedestrian mall, a Cornelia Wheeler-backed project, closed off Brattle St. at Brattle Square to all but emergency traffic. The project lasted for six months until. Wheeler claims, Square retailers chose to brand the mall a scapegoat for slumping trade and successfully petitioned the council to scrap the measure...
...opposition includes all forms of peaceful speech, such as letters to newspaper editors, peaceful assembly, and counter-speeches in appropriate locations. Furthermore, picketing is permissible outside of a building so long as it is peaceful and does not interfere with entrance to or exit from the building or with pedestrian or vehicular traffic outside of a building. It is important to understand, however, that picketing is more than expression. It is expression joined to action. Accordingly, it is entitled to no protection when its effect is coercive...
...vehicles are illegally parked. The underlying cause of illegal and overtime parking is apparent space shortage. The relatively high turnover of illegal spaces in Harvard Square indicates that most of the need is for shortterm spaces. Illegal parking on streets is not only disruptive of vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian flow but to many it is a source of visual blight...
...terms of total numbers, the greatest number of pedestrians attributable to the Library would occur on summer Saturdays. During the course of an average summer Saturday, it is estimated that some 1,800 people would be added to the core area. Assuming that 75 per cent of the existing pedestrian activity level in the Square would take place during the period that the Library was open, the percentage increase during that time due to the Library would be approximately 4 per cent. Since the peak Saturday pedestrian load occurs in the early afternoon hours for both the existing shopping activity...