Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motorists approaching an entrance ramp along Massachusetts' well-traveled Route 128 recently were pleasantly surprised at the ease with which they could enter the expressway. Instead of the usual pile-up along the ramp, car after car moved effortlessly into the mainstream of traffic. Drivers barely glanced back to look for an opening. They did not have to. Like the flashlight of a theater usher, moving green lights at the edge of the ramp led them surely and safely up and out onto the highway...
...guidance system that performed this small miracle was developed by Raytheon and is being tested by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It consists of a computer, guidance lights, three traffic lights and magnetic sensing loops embedded in the outside lane of the freeway and in the entrance ramp. As cars move over the sensors, the computer learns how many are on the ramp and whether there are gaps available for them on the highway. When a space shows up, the computer begins lighting the string of green lights in sequence at the proper speed, producing a pacing light that moves...
...Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," which will be reviewed in these pages. The drive to the picturesque grounds on the Housatonic River takes about two and a half hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike, Interstate 91, and the Connecticut Turnpike to Exit 31 (at the bottom of the exit ramp, turn left despite the sign). Performances tend to begin promptly at 2 and 8:30 in the air-conditioned Festival Theatre. There are free facilities for picknickers on the premises...
...ramp Sam paused and they all five gazed at the freeway below them. Wondering what possible cause for all the fishtailed bleepbleep boats to be zooming so fast toward the horizon. Five watching the flow and marveling that those below couldn't see what they could: if the river is us, we can go nowhere on it, we can only...
...Peggy Loewe had a wonderful trip?until the plane touched down in the U.S. The flight landed right on time, but there was a 45-minute wait for a parking ramp at Kennedy Airport. After trying in vain to hail a taxi (said a policeman: "Ya gotta be aggressive here, lady"), she boarded the crowded airport bus for a jostling ride to Manhattan's East Side Airlines Terminal, which is located away from almost everything. She waited in a long line for a taxi, then shared it with three strangers (all of whom paid full fare). At Grand Central Station...