Word: pedestrianized
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...back as last February, the Metropolitan District Commission agreed to install pedestrian traffic lights at the junction of DeWolfe Street and Memorial Drive "when warm weather permits," State Representative Walter J. Sullivan disclosed last night...
Masters Gordon M. Fair of Dunster and Leigh Hoadley of Leverett show strong support of the proposed light. "This death is the second serious accident at the corner in the last two months," Hoadley said. On March 24 a pedestrian suffered a compound fracture when hit by a car. Hoadley added that there are "three or four bad accidents there each year...
Witnesses to the accident said the car had struck the pedestrian in the head with a headlight, spun him, and dragged him a few feet. The spectators complained it took ten minutes for the police to arrive. The victim died on the way to Mount Auburn Hospital...
...maze of Paris traffic, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's limousine swerved, toppled a pedestrian, got smacked by a car behind. Alexei Pavlov, Russia's Ambassador to France, suggested a way to prevent similar accidents: let Soviet cars be escorted through the streets at 75 m.p.h., just like in Moscow...
Nearly a city block long and four stories high (195 ft. by 45 ft.), the Crucifixion, a thoroughly pedestrian work, was completed in 1895 by Poland's Jan Styka (1858-1925). He spent some 17 years at the task, which is probably some kind of record...