Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...receipts. The Association plans to continue the uncompleted street from North Harvard street to the Driveway. This work will be done this year, and, when finished, will greatly decrease the congestion of vehicles on North Harvard street on the days of the games. With the completion of the new roadway, Soldiers Field will be entirely surrounded by streets...
...problem. Three things were open to him: to sleep under the barn, to give himself up at the police court as a vagrant, or to obtain credit at one of the lodging houses. This last alternative he chose, the next morning he went to work breaking rocks for a roadway; he supported himself through the week and by the end of it paid off the debt of his first day's board and food. His lesson was a stern one, but it was worth while. He learned what it meant to fight out his own fight alone...
...park and promoting health, said that it would cost the city practically nothing. For though the expense of building the dam, be said, would be $1,200,000, this is but half the sum which has been expended on the new Cambridge bridge. If a dam bearing a roadway could have been built in place of this bridge, the city would have not only secured the dam, but would also have saved about $1,000,000. A dam with a roadway could be built with equally favorable results in place of the Craigie bridge, and furthermore, the building...
...Trustees, submitted on Tuesday to the Board of Survey of Cambridge a petition proposing that a suitable parkway be constructed from the College grounds to the Charles River Parkway. It is planned to widen and level DeWolf and Bow streets with a view to providing a dignified and suitable roadway between the parkway and Quincy square. By the opening of such an avenue a direct passage would be established from the Boston park system through the Cambridge esplanade to the University grounds. It is urged that immediate action be taken on the ground that "it will not be long before...