Word: pedestrianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...automobile. In Danbury, Conn., students made ready to perform the now popular ritual of burying an internal-combustion engine. At Wayne State University they marshaled pickets for General Motors' headquarters (see BUSINESS). Alternate modes of nonpolluting transportation called for "bike-ins," balloon ascensions and pedestrian parades. Even cities joined the act. New York announced a ban on cars and the creation of pedestrian malls along 14th Street and a 45-block stretch of Fifth Avenue. Miami, never to be outdone, promised prizes to the "most polluted" floats in a huge, car-free "Dead Orange Parade," supposed to symbolize...
...forum "Transportation Crisis in Cambridge" at Eliot House centered on the problems of rerouting traffic out of Harvard Square and turning the area into a pedestrian...
...Harvard Ecology Coalition is planning to "reclaim" Harvard Square this Friday for the pedestrian and bicycle rider-without official clearance from the Cambridge city government...
...policy and practices has come as the result of a default by our top military and civilian policy makers and by Congress. It has occurred because of the slow but constant pressures of the technicians, the totally unnecessary curtain of secrecy that covers even the most pedestrian aspects of CBW, the failure to subject CBW to a rigorous policy analysis following World War II, the acquiescence of top-level policy makers to a series of small changes that amount to a new policy, the small size of the CBW program in proportion to our other defense programs, and the frustrations...