Word: throughway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Local issues also plague Rockefeller. In Buffalo, for instance, his administration built a badly needed throughway, but put a toll bridge on it and began collecting money from commuters who, unlike their New York City counterparts, are not use to paying out dimes every time they go to work. They hate the governor in some parts of Buffalo...
...first esthetic considerations in freeway design is the question of what can be seen. Concentration intensifies with speed, and peripheral vision diminishes. The highway designer must offer the driver variety near the focal point of his attention without distracting him from the road; at throughway speed, the driver cannot afford to turn his head for more than a few seconds. The road must...
...cite his own pet example of the slurban blight. In San Francisco, the famed waterfront was threatened by a new elevated ramp until a group of aroused citizens forced the state to sus pend construction. In Sacramento, highway builders propose to split the city in two with a throughway that will require the demolition of several of the city's most cherished historical buildings, which happen to stand...
...with Oilman R. E. ("Bob") Smith, Hofheinz recently plunked down $4,940,000 to buy from Hilton Hotels Corp. 494 acres of undeveloped land near downtown Houston. No sooner had they taken title than Hofheinz and Smith gave 29½ of their new acres to the state for a throughway right of way, agreed to sell 180 acres to the county at cost to complete land acquisition for a $15 million sports stadium. The stadium will serve the new Houston National League baseball team, in which Hofheinz and Smith own the controlling interest; the highway should skyrocket the value...