Word: throughway
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...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...
...enough to challenge the prowess of every red-blooded driver from Bognor Regis to Balquhidder when the initial 72-mile stretch of Britain's first six-lane throughway opened last week after 590 days abuilding. M1, as the government proudly labeled the London-Birmingham Motorway, is intended-when its final 45 miles are completed-to almost halve the time it now takes to crawl along a major industrial artery (average speed: 23.4 m.p.h.). But it boasts one feature guaranteed to lure speed-starved drivers from all parts of Britain. It has no speed limit...
...Frightened." Last week, after new Transport Minister Ernest Marples had hailed M1's first $59 million link as "a powerful weapon," the highway took on the appearance of a battleground. Said Marples, hurrying back to the safety of London: "I was frightened." Though the throughway is soundly engineered-for high speeds, it soon became plain that British drivers...