Word: roadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hugging or Violating. Authors Tunnard and Pushkarev emphasize the need for an "essential unity of plan and profile"-a short sag on a long curve, for instance, should be avoided in favor of the harmonious gradual one. In fact, the authors recommend continuously curving roadways, on the ground that they not only are more esthetic, but also tend to keep the driver interested and therefore alert. Surprisingly, in the average terrain, such highways are very little, if any, longer, and no more expensive to build than the standard design of straight stretches connected by short curves. Uniform median width should...
Mayor John F. Collins of Boston pushed plans for the proposed Inner Belt farther into oblivion Thursday night when he withdrew his previous approval of the controversial roadway in response to the demands of irate citizens...
...estimated that the roadway would displace hundreds of residents in Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline...
...there, but his plane was grounded by bad weather; he raced to the scene by car but did not arrive until after Mere dith had departed. In Barnett's absence, the man blocking the way was Lieut. Governor Paul B. Johnson. He stood in the middle of the roadway at the main entrance of the campus, with about 20 state highway patrolmen backing him up. About 100 ft. behind, a dozen sheriffs from various Mississippi counties stood in a single rank across the roadway. Behind them, forming a third line of defense, three police cars were parked...
European travelers and businessmen should be happy too. The $50 million Mont Blanc tunnel will represent a big advance in European transport when it is opened to traffic early in 1964. The 23-ft., two-lane roadway will chop 125 mountainous miles from the Paris-Rome drive, open a route usable even when Alpine snow is deepest; Geneva and Turin. 197 miles apart by road in the summer and 491 miles apart in the winter, will be separated by 168 miles all year long when the tunnel is opened...