Word: roadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From his experience, Blake observed, the construction of underpasses along Memorial Drive would probably lead to the eventual widening of the roadway into an expressway. He explained that small changes attract more cars, which create new and larger traffic problems and finally induce more extensive alterations...
...other jacks stand ready to compensate for horizontal motion. Fulltime crews patrol the bridge day and night, and when their measurements tell them the structure needs adjustment, they pump oil into the appropriate hydraulic cylinders to raise a section or shove it sideways. So far they have kept the roadway in fairly good shape. The streams of motorists who use the bridge have noticed only slight, occasional waviness. The waviness will probably continue until 1970, when the coal miners burrowing under Duisburg will have finished lowering their city...
...proposed underpass at Memorial Drive and Boylston St. may force the demolition of Weld Boat House and bring the finished roadway within a yard of Eliot House, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Work on the underpass--one of three scheduled for completion in the spring of 1965--could begin as early as next March...
...hills; factories hidden in "caves"?actually canyons with roofs built over them; high-rise apartments sited on the crests of ridges to provide tenants spectacular views without obstructing the views of others. One breathtaking idea is a bridge crossing a canyon to link one section of the mountain roadway; Pereira suggests that the bridge be paid for with the rents from a hotel suspended under the swooping span...
...YORK. Demonstrators demanding that the Long Island state park commission hire more Negroes and Puerto Ricans squatted in a roadway leading to Jones Beach on Long Island. Two groups managed to halt traffic for a few minutes at three different times, but cops hauled them bodily off the roadway before they could create a real New York-sized traffic...