Word: roadways
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...clained that public necessity demands their removal and this question, although debated at length, still remains unsettled. A measure was proposed which if adopted will save the trees and also remedy any inconvenience which the narrowness of Harvard street may cause. This plan provides for the building of a roadway twenty feet wide north of the row of the row of trees. An expenditure of $20,000 will be necessary to accomplish this and in addition it is doubtful if the land can be secured from the University authorities. The question was referred to the Committee on Roads and Bridges...
...nature of the approach to the Acropolis was also treated by the lecturer. Very little is known of the early roadway leading up to the citadel. The changes made in the approach in the time of the Romans, the Franks and the Turks were described, as well as the modern way built after the establishment of the Greek kingdom in 1833. The lecture was closed with a historical sketch of the Propylaea in later times, and the changes which it underwent in its transformation into a fortified garrison...
...cinder path will be built between New Haven and New York for the use of wheelmen. The path will be four feet wide and will run beside the roadway...
OVER the reaches of meadow traced with the sinuous roadway...
...gawky youth that pulled me across the water to the buttress on the further side of the estuary; but sent him back, and clambered and groped my way alone some sixty feet up the steep hillside. Dirty, tired, and out of breath, I reached the roadway, and a few minutes' walk brought me to the spot where I calculated the train, as required by State laws, must stop. Lighting a cigarette, I sat down on some lumber piled alongside the track, and rested myself. I heard the monotonous sound of my Charon's oar-locks die away in the distance...